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All the Spiritualism 



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SCRIPTURE DIRECTLY 
OPPOSING IT 



BY 

Rev. E. W. Sprague 



AUTHOR OF 

A Future Life Demonstrated or Forty Years a Public Medium; All the Spirit- 
ualism of the Christian Bible and the Scripture Directly Opposing It; Jesus 
of Nazareth, God or Man, Christ or Spirit Medium; Spirit Medium- 
ship, Its Many Phases, How Developed and Safely Practiced ; Spirit 
Obsession, A False Doctrine and a Menace to Modern Spiritual- 
ism ; ReincarnationTrue or False ; False Prophets or Fraudu- 
lent Mediums of the Christian Bible; Adventism and 
the Devil, An Open Letter and Reply to Evangelist 
A. V. Cotton's Denunciation of Spiritualism; 
Testimonies of Scientists and Theologians 
Who Are Spiritualists ; The Science of 
Spirit Communion. 






Copyright, 1922 

By 

REV. E. W. SPRAGUE 

Detroit, Mich. 



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DEDICATION 

To my noble spirit helpers and teachers who, 
throughout the many years of my preparation and 
development, have been instrumental in making this 
book possible, and to my beloved wife, Clarissa A. 
Sprague, whose beautiful and spiritual mediumship 
has brought health to the physically ill and spiritual 
consolation to thousands of sorrowing mortals in 
the more than forty years of her grand and mag- 
nificent labors as a Spiritualist, and to whom I gladly 
give credit for her wonderful assistance in my own 
mediumistic development and years of labor; and 
who has walked beside me, deeply interested in our 
every good work, for fifty-five blessed years, to them 
this work is lovingly dedicated by 

The Author. 



All the Spiritualism of the Christian Bible and the 

Scripture Directly Opposing it. 

Foreword. 

Spiritualism teaches that when one has done some- 
thing helpful and beneficial to people of the world, its 
blessings are enjoyed in spirit life, and the author 
expects to look back and see the results of his work 
here, including the writing of this book ; and, because of 
the assistance it will be to many in finding the truth, 
it will add to his happiness in Summerland. 



Some of the best scholars of the Christian Church 
in their "higher criticism" have given the world a bet- 
ter understanding of the origin and teachings of the 
Bible, the tendency of which is to help to liberate Bible 
worshipers from the mental bondage into which old 
theology has placed them. In doing this these critics 
have accomplished a very good work so far as they 
have gone, but they have utterly failed to explain the 
spiritual significance of the spirit manifestations and 
phenomena recorded in the Bible, probably because they 
were not versed in such phenomena, never having wit- 
nessed them, therefore could go no farther than their 
knowledge of these matters extended. 

It is, therefore, perfectly legitimate and fitting that 
Spiritualists, who through the experience gained in 
three-quarters of a century of careful and scientific 
investigation of these spiritual phenomena, should pro- 
ceed to enlighten them as well as others upon the dis- 



6 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

coveries they have made as revealed in Modern 
Spiritualism. 

We consider it our duty, and it is always a great 
pleasure, to write upon the subject of this new Revela- 
tion from heaven — Modern Spiritualism. 

The Bible contains many evidences of spirit com- 
munion, and records many examples of spirit mani- 
festations and spirit phenomena, of which Modern 
Spiritualism is the present-day exponent and the only 
true interpreter; therefore, the Bible by right should 
belong to the Spiritualist. 

Many persons, because of their misunderstanding of 
the real meaning of the scriptures, have discarded the 
Bible entirely. Too many men who know nothing of 
the laws governing psychic phenomena have been try- 
ing to interpret and explain the scriptures from the 
standpoint of miracles, and whenever a phenomenon 
was mentioned which such would-be interpreters could 
not comprehend nor explain, they never having wit- 
nessed such phenomena, they relegated it to the realm 
of miracles of God, or to an act of the devil. The mis- 
sion of this book is to furnish light to those in darkness. 
In giving our views of the Spiritualism of the Bible we 
are letting the Bible itself explain them. 

No Miracles in Spiritualism. 

The truly Spiritualistic interpretation of the Bible 
permits of no miracle, but weighs and measures every- 
thing from the standpoint of reason, natural law and 
scientific demonstration. 

This work contains references to all the Spiritualism 
of the Bible and its Index will give directions where 
to find any passage teaching it, and it proves that both 
the Old and New Testament records many facts of 



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spirit phenomena occurring in those ancient days that 
are identically the same as are occurring in the seances 
of Modern Spiritualism today. It shows that the 
"prophets," "seers," and "men of God" were all spirit 
mediums and received communications from spirit 
life ; that they possessed mental and physical medium- 
ship corresponding exactly with the various phases 
possessed by our modern mediums. 

This text book of the Spiritualism of the Christian 
Bible will help anyone, Christian, Spiritualist, or In- 
fidel, who wishes help, to understand the real meaning 
of many otherwise obscure and seemingly inexplicable 
passages of scripture. It will also be of great assist- 
ance to Spiritualists, their speakers and mediums in 
their work of enlightening the world on the real, true 
teachings of the scriptures regarding the Spiritualism 
of the people of Bible times. It will be a great help 
to Spiritualists in protecting themselves against the 
slanderous misrepresentations of Christian opponents 
of Spiritualism, and is a ready reference book of Bible 
Spiritualism, showing conclusively that Spiritualism, 
Spiritism and mediumship were taught and practiced 
in some form by nearly all the "prophets," "seers," 
"men of God," and other leading lights of the Bible. 

Do the Dead Return? 
Many Christian ministers are preaching from the 
subject, "Do the Dead Return?" and in most cases 
that have come to our knowledge they have either 
derided the fact or have manifested great doubt of its 
truth. Such men do not read the scripture aright or 
they must doubt its truth, else they must close their 
eyes to the facts the scriptures plainly teach. Nearly 
every book of the Bible, and a large proportion of the 



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chapters of each teach spirit return, as is plainly shown 
in this work. These men know very little about Spirit- 
ualism, as their sermons clearly indicate, and we would 
respectfully suggest that any man is better qualified 
to discuss a subject when he is well informed regard- 
ing it than one who is ignorant of its principles. If 
these gentlemen would become better informed re- 
garding the true teachings of the scriptures, and they 
believed them true, they would doubt no more the fact 
that the dead return and communicate with the living. 

Why This Book? 

Many books have been written in explanation of the 
Bible, both in support of it and in condemnation of its 
teachings, but this book is different from them all, 
inasmuch as it explains the Bible from an entirely 
different standpoint, without the prejudice of the In- 
fidel, or the fanaticism of the unreasoning Christian 
writer: the author lets the Bible tell the story itself, 
and his conclusions are based upon scientific facts and 
well-known, demonstrated truths that were unknown 
to early writers. 

The author's many Christian friends who are in- 
vestigating Spiritualism often ask where to find 
scripture that teaches and corroborates the religion, 
philosophy and phenomena of Spiritualism, and this 
book will help them, as it gives it all. 

This book is not written in the hope of enlightening 
or converting such people as the Adventists, the Russell- 
ites and others of that class of would-be Christians 
who scoff at every modern-day evidence of a future 
life, and declare that all modern spirit phenomena are 
the works of the devil ; they are evidently of the class 
the Nazarene mentions in his parable of the rich man 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE ^ 

and Lazarus, "Neither will they be persuaded though 
one rose from the dead." I believe some of them really 
think that their God has sent evil spirits and the old 
imaginary devil of their religion to impersonate our 
beloved arisen friends, and here is their authority for 
such belief : "And for this cause God shall send them 
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" : "That 
they all might be damned." (2nd Thess., 2nd Chap., 
11, 12.) 

Much of the Old Testament is not in accord with the 
teachings of Modern Spiritualism, and there is so 
much of it that we cannot publish it all in this book, 
but we have published all that is said directly opposing 
Spiritualism. 

The Index. 

This book is so indexed that one can find any scrip- 
ture that teaches Spiritualism or that directly condemns 
it. If one wishes to find all the scripture that mentions 
trumpet speaking, spirit materialization, trance, clair- 
voyance, or anything else pertaining to Spiritualism, 
he may turn to any such subject in the index and find 
the pages that mention it. 

The author is well aware of the fact that his motives 
in publishing these truths of the Bible will be mis- 
understood by some of the good people who accept it 
as God's infallible word; but he feels that even they 
should seek the correct interpretation of it, and if they 
find they have been misguided they should be glad to 
be set aright. 

He also regrets that some good Christians will not 
love him any more because he is here letting the Bible 
tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth 
regarding the Spiritualism and the Spiritism it contains. 
However, he is firmly resolved to continue to love them, 



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if he does not love some parts of their creeds, while 
he pursues the even tenor of his way and gives to the 
world the benefit of his forty years of study of the 
Bible, and also the benefit of the knowledge gained 
through his own personal mediumship and from his 
spirit assistants, as applicable to the Spiritualism of 
the Bible. The laws, facts and principles of Spirit 
mediumship of today are the same as in the days when 
mediumship was practiced by the "prophets," "seers," 
and "men of God" of the Bible. 

Definitions of Bible Terms. 

A clear understanding of the terms used in scripture 
is a great help to the student. Different terms are often 
used in the same chapter to designate the spirits of men 
who once lived in human form and had died. These 
terms are as follows: "angels," "angels of heaven," 
"angels of the Lord," "Holy angel," "his angel," "men 
in bright clothing," "spirits," "the spirit," "Lord," 
"Lord God," "God," "ghost," "man," "men," etc. 

These words and some others are all used in scrip- 
ture to designate the spirits of the dead who make 
their appearance to mortals, influencing, inspiring or 
controlling mediumistic people and communicating 
with them. "The word of the Lord" always signifies 
"The Spirit Message." It is a spirit's message, as is 
shown throughout this work. 

The term "Man of God" signifies one who has spir- 
itual faculties, "spiritual gifts," "a spirit medium," "a 
prophet" or "seer." 

The term, "the Word of God," wherever found in 
scripture signifies "a spirit message." 1st Sam. IX., 
27, Samuel shows Saul "the word of God," or gives him 
a spirit communication which he had received the day 



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before from the spirit of the Lord. (See 15th verse, 
also see 1st Kings XII, 22, 23, 24.) 

Angels Are Spirits of Men and Wear Human 
Apparel. 

Ezekiel IX., 2, 3, 11, they are clothed with linen. 
X., 2, 6, 7, clothed with linen. Matt. XXVIII., 3, they 
wear "human apparel. " Acts X., 30, they appear in 
bright clothing. Rev. XV., 6, they materialize "clothed 
in pure and white linen." Many more passages of 
scripture may be mentioned that prove this fact. 

Christian Authority Says Angels Are Spirits. 

Dr. Wm. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, a Christian 
authority, under the heading, "Angels," says : "Their 
ministry hallows domestic life, in its trials and in its 
blessings alike." Again he says : "The angels are 
therefore revealed to us beings, such as man might 
be, and will be, when the power of sin and death is 
removed." That is, when men die and outgrow sin, 
they will be angels. 

Once more he says : "The angels are revealed now 
as ministering spirits to each individual member of 
Christ for His spiritual guidance and aid." He then 
mentions Heb. Chap. L, 14th verse, which reads as fol- 
lows : "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth 
to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" 
(See also Luke XXII., 43; 1st John IV., 1; Ps. 104, 
4; Heb. I., 7.) 

It is claimed by some Christian theologians that 
angels are of a different origin from that of human 
spirits. The author of this work will be very thankful 
to anyone who will name a single passage of scripture 
that teaches that angels are not spirits of men, and 
that they have a different origin from that of human 
beings. 



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Names of the God of Moses. 

Spirit Jehovah has several different names: Gen. 
XVII., 1, He tells Abram as follows: "I AM THE 
ALMIGHTY GOD." Exodus III., 13, Moses asks the 
communicating spirit for his name, that he might tell 
the Israelites what spirit or god (all tribal gods were 
spirits) had sent them his message. The 14th verse 
says, "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM. 
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM 
hath sent me unto you." Leviticus XIX., 12, 16, 
Jehovah declares, "I am the Lord." This he does in 
many parts of the scriptures. Ex. VI., 7, Jehovah tells 
the Israelites : "I will be to you a God" (not the only 
God but a god). 

Gen. XXXII., 24, this spirit wrestled with Jacob, 
in the 28th and 30th verses, he is called God. Is there 
anyone that believes the God of this universe wrestled 
all night with a poor old Jew, and could not get away 
from him in the morning until he (Jacob) was pleased 
to let him go ? Here is a good place to read and reflect. 
Isaiah XLIL, 8, Jehovah says : "I am the Lord; that is 
my name" Ex. XV., 3 : "The Lord is a man of war; 
the Lord is his name" 

Holy Ghost, Meaning of the Term. 

The Christian religion says three Gods are one God. 
"God the father, God the son, and God the Holy Ghost." 
"These three are one." The makers of the orthodox 
Christian creeds in reading the scripture saw that the 
communications coming through the prophets, when 
the Holy Ghost had possession of them, were intelligent 
and knew and foretold things that the prophets (me- 
diums) through whom they were speaking could not 
know, therefore, they concluded it was "God, the Holy 
Ghost." Does anyone know any more about the 



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Holy Ghost since that decision was made? The 
answer is yes: Spiritualism has given the true 
meaning of the term. The meaning of the term 
"Holy Ghost" will be better understood when we 
put in its place the terms here mentioned: "spirit 
power/' "spirit influence," "spirit control," "spirit 
teacher," "spirit mediumship," or "spirit messenger." 
For example: Mark XIII., 11, "But when they 
shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought 
beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premedi- 
tate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, 
that speak ye, for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy 
Ghost" (the spirit control that speaks). 

Luke II., 26, "And it was revealed unto him by the 
Holy Ghost" (the spirit influence). 

Luke XII., 12, "For the Holy Ghost (spirit influence, 
or spirit guide) shall teach you in the same hour what 
you ought to say." 

John XIV., 26, "But the Comforter, which is the Holy 
Ghost (spirit-messenger), whom the Father will send 
in My name, He shall teach you all things, etc." 

John XX., 22, Jesus, a spirit, breathed on the disciples 
and gave them the Holy Ghost or placed them "in the 
spirit," that is, he placed them under spirit control. 

Webster defines the term "Ghost" as a disembodied 
soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person, conceived 
either as a denizen of the unseen world or as appearing 
to the living in bodily likeness; hence an apparition; 
specter; spook." 

Therefore, "Holy," meaning "pure in heart," and 
"Ghost," being a soul or spirit of a deceased person. 
"Holy Ghost" may be properly termed "Holy Spirit," 
and being, as Webster states, a disembodied soul or 
spirit, when it manifests with power, that power is 



14 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLK 

"spirit power"; it could not be otherwise ; when it influ- 
ences mortals it must be "spirit influence" ; when it con- 
trols a human being, its manifestation is "spirit con- 
trol" ; when it teaches mortals it is a "spirit teacher" 
and when it communicates to a mortal it becomes a 
"spirit messenger" This is sufficient biblical authority 
for using these terms the way in which the author has 
done, but it will be shown throughout the work that 
these definitions are the true ones. 

The author was once asked by a minister by what 
right he gave the different definitions of these terms. 
He replied as follows : "We have the same right to 
give our definitions of these Bible terms that the 
writers of your creed have to give theirs." 

The New Version, American Standard Edition of the 
Bible, discards the term "Holy Ghost" and substitutes 
the term "Holy Spirit," and they have the same right 
to do it that the author of this work has to substitute 
the words "Spirit Power," "Spirit Control," etc., for 
"Holy Ghost." 

Jehovah, Was He Almighty God? 
Christianity teaches that Jehovah was Almighty God, 
and that Jesus also was Almighty God, and the two 
natures are as opposite, according to the scriptures, as 
is the heaven and hell of Christianity, and in their 
teachings they are as far apart as the antipodes. 

Jehovah an Egyptian Priest. 
It is claimed by some writers that the Lord Jehovah 
of the Hebrews was the spirit of an Egyptian priest 
and King of Salem. That the name Melchizedek in the 
Greek tongue was given him as a characteristic at a 
certain period of his history when he was King of 



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Salem, which means king of peace, though aforetime 
a "man of war." 

"This king was met by Abram on the plains of Childo- 
lare, on his return from the slaughter of kings." (Gen. 
XIV , 18 ; Heb. VII ,1,2.) A jealous fighting God, an 
uncommon peculiarity possessed by this peculiar priest- 
king Jehokah, alias Jehovah. "Jehovah was the spirit 
of an Egyptian." He is referred to in the "Egyptian 
Book of the Dead" as Gehokah, and existed long before 
Moses. 

"Moses could not have been learned in all the wis- 
dom of Egypt and not know something of him." 

For this and more, see "The Encyclopedia of Bib- 
lical Spiritualism," by Rev. Moses Hull, page 155. 

We have the views of other authors upon the subject, 
but for lack of space must not present them here. Let 
the scriptures testify. 

Definitions of Other Bible Terms. 

Webster's definitions follow : 

"God — the Supreme Being: Eternal and Infinite 
Spirit, Creator and Sovereign of the Universe, Jeho- 
vah." 

"Christ, first the Messiah, or (Lord's) anointed, 
whose coming was expected by the Jews." "Among the 
Jews any divinely appointed ruler as consecrated by 
anointing." 

"Messiah, first the expected king and deliverer of 
the Hebrews ; The Christ" ; second, an expected deliv- 
erer or savior in other religions than Christian." 

"Prophet, one who prophesies or foretells events." 

"Medium, an interagent; a mediator; an interme- 
diary; a spiritualistic medium." 

"Seer, first, one that sees ; second, a person who fore- 



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sees or foretells events; a prophet; third, one gifted 
with second sight." 

Bible Prophets and Spirit Mediums the Same. 

A prophet is a medium and a medium is a prophet ; 
both are used by spirits, for the same purpose and in the 
same manner. Their experiences are the same; they 
are inspired, taking on conditions of their inspirers, 
impersonating them, and sometimes are violently agi- 
tated physically. 

Alexander Cruden's "Concordance of the Bible," a 
Christian authority, under the subject "Prophet," says : 
"As the prophets, at the time that they were transported 
by the motions of God's Spirit {under spirit control) 
were sometimes agitated in a violent manner; those 
motions were called prophesying which persons ex- 
hibited who were filled with a good or evil spirit. For 
example, Saul prophesied in his house (1st Sam. VIII., 
8) ; that is, he was agitated with violence, and used 
strange and unusual gestures, signs and speeches, as 
the prophets did/' Mediums of today do the same 
things; some call it acting queerly or strangely. 

The term Spiritual medium applies to one who has 
such mediumship as was manifested in Jesus, Peter 
and Paul. 

The unspiritual or non-spiritual mediums are of the 
class of Moses, David, Saul and others of the Old Tes- 
tament. Jesus was a Spiritualist, Saul and David were 
Spiritists. 

So a Christ is a Messiah, a mediator, a prophet, a 
seer and a medium. These terms all have the same 
meaning according to Webster, and it will be well for 
the reader to keep this fact in mind while reading this 
book. 



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"The word of the Lord" signifies spirit communion, 
and "the word of the Lord came to him" always sig- 
nifies that inspiration or a spirit message was given 
him. (See 1st Kings XII, 22 ; XIII., 17, 18 ; XXL, 17 ; 
Zech. L, 1; VI., 5; VII, 4, 8; VIII, 1; 1st Chron. 
XVII, 3. Spirit messages follow each statement in 
these and many more that could be mentioned.) 

"Divination, the act of foreseeing or foretelling future 
events, or discovering hidden knowledge." 

"Divine, a diviner; soothsayer; second, a minister 
of the gospel, a priest, a clergyman." (Webster.) 

Jehovah the Spirit Guide of Israel's Mediums. 

The ancient Israelites were a very superstitious peo- 
ple, as is shown throughout the Old Testament records 
of them. They believed this daily visitor who con- 
trolled Israel's leading mediums was the author of all 
evil as well as of all good, and that he brought evils upon 
them as punishment for their disobedience of his orders 
and commands. Satan, or the devil, is greatly slighted 
or entirely ignored in the Old Testament. The evils 
that befell the Israelites were attributed to Jehovah 
and were placed upon them as punishment for their 
disobedience. When they were defeated in battle, it 
was done by Jehovah for punishment of some supposed 
wrongdoing of these his "chosen people," as he always 
explained through his prophets (mediums). Terrible 
punishments he freely inflicted upon these poor, inno- 
cent people, including men, women and children, who 
had done no wrong, as is shown later. 

All the Spiritualism of the Christian Bible and 
Scripture Directly Opposing it. 

The Book of Genesis — Spirit Materialization. 
The first Bible record of spirit materialization is 



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found in Genesis, III. Chap., Verse 8, which reads as 
follows : "Aiid they (Adam and Eve) heard the voice 
of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of 
the day : and Adam and his wife hid themselves from 
the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of 
the garden." 

Gods Many Taught. 

Verse 22 : "And the Lord God said, Behold the man 
is become as one of us, to know good and evil, etc/* 
John IV., 24, says, "God is a spirit/' therefore this 
was a spirit materialization. 

Gen. VI., 6, 7, Jehovah "repents" and "is grieved at 
his heart," This being true, Jehovah has two human 
attributes. He "repents" and "grieves." 

Contradictory Statements of Spirits — Eat Every- 
thing That Has Life. 

Gen. IX., 3, Spirit Jehovah tells Noah, "Every mov- 
ing thing shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb 
have I given all things." 

Lev. XL, 6th to 23d verses, Jehovah, speaking to 
Moses and Aaron, contradicts His own statement to 
Noah by forbidding eating swine flesh and many other 
kinds of meats, calling them "an abomination" unto 
them. Did Jehovah change his mind regarding the 
eating of certain kinds of meats, or was it not the same 
spirit speaking to these different mediums ? We leave 
this for others to decide. 

Rainbow a Sign in the Heavens. 

Verses 12 to 16 is a spirit communication from 
Jehovah to Noah, in which the spirit tells him that he 
puts the rainbow in the clouds as a token or sign that 
he will no more destroy all flesh by a flood. 



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Does any thinking person believe there never was 
a rainbow until this time and that Jehovah put it in 
the heavens as a sign that he would not drown the 
world? This is all a spirit communication from Jeho- 
vah to Noah. Did anyone of modern days ever receive 
a more simple spirit communication? 

Prophecy of Jehovah Never Fulfilled. 

Gen. XIII., 16, Spirit Jehovah says to Abram : "And 
I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if 
a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy 
seed also be numbered. " This promise was never ful- 
filled. This promise was often made by Jehovah and 
proves that He, like other spirits, ancient and modern, 
was not infallible in His predictions. 

Vision — Abram, a Medium, Has One. 

Gen. XV., 1 : "After these things the word of the 
Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, 
Abram; I am thy shield (spirit guide) and thy exceed- 
ing great reward. " 

Abram in a Trance. 
Gen. XV., 12 : "And when the sun was going down, 
a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of 
great darkness fell upon him." Following this to the 
21st verse, Jehovah gives Abram a spirit message while 
he (Abram) is in this trance. 

Hagar in the Wilderness. 

Gen. XVL : This chapter tells of Abram's wife 
(Sarai) giving Hagar, her servant girl, to Abram, her 
husband, to be his wife, because she herself was barren 
and they wanted children so much. 

Seventh verse : The angel of the Lord found Hagar 
in the wilderness, where she had gone to get away from 
the abuse of Sarai. 



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Prophecy Fulfilled. 

Verses 1 1 and 12 : This angel of the Lord told Hagar 
that she should bear a son. The spirit names this 
unborn babe and tells its expectant mother that it will 
be a wild man. He gives the young woman a spirit 
message of interest to her regarding this matter. Hagar 
was the medium for this spirit communication. 

This prophecy regarding Hagar's unborn babe was 
fulfilled. 

Another Materialization — Jehovah Says He Is 
Almighty God. 

Gen. XVII., 1 : "And when Abram was ninety years 
old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said 
unto him, I am Almighty God; walk before me, and 
be thou perfect." 

Verse 2 : Jehovah will make a covenant, or contract, 
with Abram. "And will multiply thee exceedingly," 
he says. In the third verse he talks to him, and in the 
fourth verse he promises him he shall be father of 
many nations. 

Abram's and Sarai's Names Changed. 

Verse 5 : Spirit Jehovah changes Abram's name to 
"Abraham." And in the 10th verse he orders circum- 
cision. 

Verse 15 : He changes Sarai's name to "Sarah." 

Abraham Doubts This Spirit Message Coming from 
the Christians' God. 

Verse 17 : "Then Abraham fell upon his face, and 
laughed, and said in his heart, shall a child be born 
unto him that is an hundred years old ? and shall Sarah, 
that is ninety years old, bear ?" 

This scripture shows how little Abraham believed 
in the spirit Jehovah, his "ALMIGHTY GOD." 



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Three Spirits Materialize and Eat a Veal Dinner. 

Gen. XVIIL, 1 : "And the Lord appeared unto him 
(Abraham) in the plains of Mamre : and he sat in the 
tent door in the heat of the day." 

Verse 2: "And he lifted up his eyes and looked, 
and lo, three men stood by him ; when he saw them, he 
ran to meet them, from the tent door, and bowed him- 
self toward the ground." 

Verse 3 : "And said, My Lord, if now I have found 
favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from 
thy servant." 

Verse 4 : "Abraham asks these spirits to wash their 
feet and rest themselves under a tree." Whether these 
were spirits of men, or angels, or Almighty God that 
Abraham was talking to, it still seems strange that he 
would invite them to wash their feet, and rest them- 
selves. 

The 5th verse says : "And I will fetch a morsel of 
bread, and comfort ye your hearts ; after that ye shall 
pass on: for, therefore are ye come to your servant. 
And they (the spirits) said, so do, as thou hast said." 

Whether these were spirits, angels, or gods, they 
were ready to eat. 

Verses 6 and 7 : Abraham tells Sarah to make some 
cakes, and he ran to the herd and selected a calf and 
gave it to a young man to dress it. 

Verse 8: "And he (Abraham) took butter and milk 
and the calf that he had dressed and set it before them 
under the tree and they did eat." Spirits of Modern 
Spiritualism are not in the habit of doing such strange 
things as some of these spirits of Christianity did. 

Verses 9 to 16 : The Lord, or the spirits, told- Abra- 
ham that Sarah, his wife, should "bear a son," though 



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Sarah was ninety and Abraham was one hundred years 
old. 

Verses 10 and 11 : Sarah heard this spirit prophesy 
that she should have a son. 

Verse 12: "Therefore Sarah laughed within her- 
self, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, 
my lord being old also ?" 

Verse 13 : "And the Lord (or spirit) said unto 
Abraham, wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall 
I of a surety bear a child, which am old ?" 

Verse 14: The Lord or spirit repeats the prophecy 
that Sarah should bear a child. 

Sarah Prevaricates. 

Verse 15: Sarah tells a falsehood, because she was 
afraid, and the spirit contradicted her. 

Verse 16 : Abraham and these three spirit men went 
on their way toward Sodom. 

Jehovah Not Omnipresent. 

Verse 21 : The Lord says, "I will go down now, and 
see whether they have done altogether according to 
the cry of it, which has come unto me, and if not, I 
will know." 

This must have been one of these materialized spir- 
its speaking. 

Verse 20 says : It was the Lord who was talking. 
If these three spirits were Almighty God should they 
not have known what was going on at Sodom without 
going there to see and learn ? Spirits, like mortals, do 
not know things without learning them. God, accord- 
ing to Christianity, is all knowing and everywhere pres- 
ent. Is Spiritualism unreasonable and Christianity 
the only reasonable religion? The remainder of this 



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chapter mentions more of Abraham's communing with 
these three spirits, and it is wonderful and should be 
read carefully and with a desire to know the truth. 

In this chapter these materialized spirits are called 
"Lord" twelve times and are called "men" three times 
(all three could not have been one Jehovah). 

In the 13th verse Sarah calls Abraham "Lord." It 
was the custom in those days to call one's superior 
"Lord." 

Spirits Talk About Destroying Sodom. 
Verses 22 to 33 : These three spirits threaten to 
destroy the city of Sodom, and Abraham questioned 
them to know if they would destroy the righteous with 
the wicked. They finally decided to save the city if 
there were but ten righteous people within it. Abra- 
ham calls these spirits "The Lord" and in the 25th 
verse he calls them "The Judge of all the earth." 

Two Angels Came to Lot. 
Gen. XIX., Verse 1 : Two angels came to Sodom, 
and by Lot's invitation they remained over night with 
him just as mortals would. Much of this chapter is 
unfit to print and we will pass it by. Its teachings are 
not in accord with Spiritualism anyway, but are con- 
trary to it. 

Fire and Brimstone from Heaven. 

Verse 24 : "Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and 
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of 
heaven." 

Any person who can accept this chapter of the "Holy 
Book" as "God's Word" certainly cannot have read 
it, or else they shut their eyes to its contents. These 



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communicating spirits are called "angels," "Lords" 
and "men," in this chapter. 

Miraculous Birth of Isaac — Another Prophecy 
Fulfilled. 

Gen. XXL, 1, 2 : Another miraculous birth fulfill- 
ing the prophecy of the two angels, as made to Abraham 
on the plains of Mamre: Dear old Mrs. Abraham 
becomes a mother at ninety years of age ; Isaac is born 
into the world through the miraculous intervention of 
Jehovah, the God of the Israelites. 

A Spirit or Angel Comes to Hagar. 

Verse 10: Sarah orders Hagar cast out. 

Verse 14: Abraham turned poor Hagar, with his 
and her child, out into the wilderness to die, giving 
her only a bottle of water and some bread. Oh, what 
a heartless husband and father Abraham must have 
been! 

Verses 15 and 16 tell us how Hagar, when the bread 
and water was gone, went away out of hearing of the 
cries of her starving child and wept. The poor girl is 
entitled to the pity and sympathy of all decent people. 
She was in a strange land, alone in a wilderness, her 
child dying of hunger and thirst, no human being near 
to befriend or help her. Can any good Christian excuse 
Abraham or condone his crime against this innocent 
girl wife and his child? 

Verses 17 to 21 say that an angel of heaven came to 
Hagar and rescued her and saved her child. It was 
a fitting time and place for good spirits to come and 
assist this poor, forsaken girl wife and child. Angels 
are still in the habit of visiting mortals in distress ; and 



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this is what Modern Spiritualism is teaching and dem- 
onstrating to the world. 

Verse 22 : Abraham is told that "God is with thee 
in all that thou doest." Some people doubt the truth 
of this statement. 

Jehovah Tempts Abraham. 

Gen. XXII. , Verses 1 and 2, says: "God did tempt 
Abraham to take his only son" Isaac and offer him as 
a burnt offering. However, Isaac was not his only 
son, and it seems strange that God did not know it and 
should call Isaac his only son. Ishmael, Abraham's 
son by Hagar, was another who was born when Abra- 
ham was eighty-six years old. (See Gen. XVI., 15, 16.) 

Verse 10 : "Abraham stretched forth his hand, and 
took the knife to slay his son." 

An Angel Stays Abraham's Hand. 

Verse 11 : "The angel of the Lord (not God) called 
unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham ; 
and he said, 'Here am 1/ " 

Verse 12 : "And he said, lay not thine hand on the 
lad, neither do thou anything to him : for now I know 
that thou fearest God since thou hast not withheld thy 
son, thy only son, from me. (This was not his only 
son, as has been shown above. ) This angel of God did 
not know of Abraham's son Ishmael, or he did not wish 
to recognize him. This Bible story caused Mr. Free- 
man to chop his little child's head off with an ax some 
years ago. He trusted God to stay his hand, as the 
Bible says God stayed Abraham's hand, and God did 
not do it, and the poor child was beheaded. O for a God 
to stay the hand of all would-be murderers of today ! 
The God of Spiritualism and his angels do not advise 
mediums to murder their sons nowadays. 



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Spirit Match Making. 
Gen. XXIV., tells of a spirit leading Abraham's ser- 
vant into another country and selecting a wife for his 
master's son Isaac. This is a real test of spirit influ- 
ence and ability to accomplish certain things desired 
by mortals. Such spirit acts as this, if enacted in Michi- 
gan today, would be considered a violation of law and 
the servant medium would be liable to arrest, fine and 
imprisonment for fortune telling, would he not? 

Dark Seances. 
Gen. XXVI., 24 : "And the Lord appeared unto him 
(unto Isaac) the same night, and said: I am the God 
of Abraham, thy father; fear not, for I am with thee, 
and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant 
Abraham's sake." Why did this spirit appear in the 
night, if Christians are right who declare that spirit 
phenomena are evil because they sometimes occur in 
the darkness. 

Jacob's Ladder His Vision. 

Gen. XXVIII., 12: "And he (Jacob) dreamed, and 
behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it 
reached to heaven ; and behold the angels of God 
ascending and descending on it." (One might read 
the whole chapter.) 

Gen. XXXL, 11, 12, 13: "The angel of God (not 
God) spake unto Jacob in a dream." 

Gen. XXXII., 1, 2: A host of God's angels meets 
Jacob. 

Jacob Wrestles with God. 

The 24th verse says : "And Jacob was left alone ; 
and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking 
of the day." 



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Verse 25 : This spirit put Jacob's thigh out of joint. 

Verse 26: Jacob would not let this angel go until 
he blessed him. 

Verse 28 : Jacob's adversary in the wrestling match 
is called God. 

Verse 30 : "And Jacob called the name of the place 
Penial, for I have seen God face to face and my life is 
preserved." 

This spirit with whom Jacob wrestled all night is 
called "a man" in the 24th verse, "God" in the 28th 
and 30th verses. 

Divination. 

Joseph, once the ruler of Egypt, the favorite son of 
the patriarch Jacob, used divination as he himself 
declares. 

Gen. XLIV., 5 : "Is not this it (the cup) in which my 
lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth ?" 

Verse 15 : "And Joseph said unto them, What deed 
is this that ye have done ? Wot ye not (do ye not know) 
that such a man as I can certainly divine?" Scripture 
forbids divination and casting lots is included. (See 
"divination" and "casting lots" in Index.) 

More Dark Seances — Jacob's Name Changed. 
Gen. XLVL, Verse 2: "And God (Jehovah or a 
spirit) spake unto Israel in visions of the night, and 
said, Jacob, Jacob." (The spirit man or God who 
wrestled with Jacob all night gave Jacob the name of 
Israel.) (See Gen. XXXII., 24 to 32.) "And he said 
here am I." 

Again Jehovah Says He Is God, Then Makes a 
Prophecy That Never Came True. 
Verse 3 : "And he said I am God ; the God of thy 
father : fear not to go down into Egypt ; for / will there 



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make of thee a great nation" O it seems so easy for a 
spirit to declare himself God Almighty and then dis- 
prove it by making a false prophecy. Were the Israel- 
ites ever a great nation in Egypt ? 

The Book of Exodus. 

The book of Exodus records many spirit messages, 
and the most of them are greatly lacking in spirituality. 

Moses Kills a Man. 

Exod., Chap. II., Verse 11, says: "And it came to 
pass in those days when Moses was grown, that he went 
out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens : and 
he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his 
brethren. ,, 

Verse 12 : "And he looked this way and that way, 
and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the 
Egyptian, and hid him in the sand." Such an act as 
that would count against any modern medium, and 
rightly, too. Why excuse it in Moses ? The man who 
talked with God almost daily, according to the scrip- 
tures. (See Ex. XXXIII., 11.) ' 

Every move after this time, in the delivery of the 
Israelites from bondage, was made by spirit direction. 

This Angel Claims He Is God — The Burning Bush. 

Ex. III., Verse 2 : "And the angel of the Lord (not 
the Lord, but his angel) appeared unto him in a flame 
of fire, out of the midst of a bush ; and he looked, and 
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was 
not consumed." (See also Verse 6.) 

Spiritualists might account for this supposed fire, 
that did not burn, as they have spirit lights in their 
seances. 



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Verse 6 says : "Moreover, he said, I am the God of 
thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and 
the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face ; for he was 
afraid to look upon God." Was this Almighty God, 
or was it an angel of the Lord, or was it a spirit repre- 
senting himself to be both? The latter looks the most 
reasonable. This spirit claims to be the same one that 
came to Abraham and told him he was Almighty God. 
The remainder of this chapter is a spirit message from 
this angel of the Lord, and after telling Moses that he 
was God, he tells him to tell the Israelites that his name 
is "I AM THAT I AM." (See 14th verse.) 

Divination — Does Jehovah Teach Sleight-of-Hand? 

Christians sometimes accuse spirit mediums of fraud 
and using sleight-of-hand. Did Moses defraud the 
people with it ? Was he a fraudulent medium, or was 
this SPIRIT PHENOMENA EXTRAORDINARY? 
Let's read carefully and decide. 

Moses' Rod Turned Into a Serpent. 

EX. IV., 2: "And the Lord said unto him (unto 
Moses), What is that in thine hand? And he said, 
A rod." 

Verse 3 : "And he said, Cast it on the ground, and 
he cast it on the ground and it became a serpent ; and 
Moses fled from before it." 

Verse 4 : "And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth 
thine hand, and take it by the tail. (Was this not a 
strange statement for the Almighty to make?) And 
he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a 
rod in his hand." 

Verse 5 : "That they (the Israelites) may believe 
that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abra- 



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ham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob hath ap- 
peared unto thee." That is to say : Moses must do 
these things, so like legerdemain, to convince the Israel- 
ites that Abraham's God was with Moses. 

Verse 6 : "And the Lord said furthermore unto him, 
Put now thine hand into thy bosom; and he put his 
hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, 
his hand was leprous as snow." 
Was This Black Magic, Sleight-of-Hand, or What? 

Verse 7 ; "And he said, Put thine hand into thy 
bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom 
again, and behold, it was turned again as his other 
flesh." 

Verse 8: "And it shall come to pass, if they will 
not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the 
first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter 
sign." In this Jehovah was mistaken, as will be" seen 
farther on. They did not believe it was God doing it, 
and their magicians duplicated the phenomena pro- 
duced by Moses. 

Verse 9 : "And it shall come to pass, if they will not 
believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy 
voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, 
and pour upon the dry land : and the water which thou 
takest out of the river shall become blood upon the 
dry land." Was Moses a magician? 

Modern mediums cannot be accused of doing such 
tricks as these. Their spirit guides never teach them 
to turn rods into serpents, catch them by the tail and 
turn them back into divining rods. Only Hindoo 
fakers and regular sleight-of-hand men do such things 
nowadays, and never for the purpose of making the 
innocent people believe that the Lord God of their 
fathers is present with them. 



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Exod. IV., Verse 10: Moses complains that he is 
not eloquent but is slow of speech. 

In the 11th and 12th verses Moses is promised spirit 
help and inspiration to speak. And after these won- 
derful experiences with spirit Jehovah he seems afraid 
to attempt this work of magic. 

Verses 14, 15 and 16: The Lord Jehovah promises 
Moses that he will put words into his mouth and in 
Aaron's mouth ; and Aaron shall become his "spokes- 
man unto the people, and he shall be, even he shall be, 
to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him 
instead of God." A wonderful promise, is it not? 

Verse 17: "And thou shalt take this rod in thine 
hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs." (That is, he 
shall give tests.) 

God Hardens Pharaoh's Heart. 

Verse 21 : "And the Lord said unto Moses, When 
thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all 
those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in 
thine hand : but I will harden his heart, that he shall 
not let the people go." 

Why did Jehovah use these magical methods through 
the mediumship of Moses to make King Pharoah re- 
lease the Israelites, and then every time he repented and 
agreed to give them up, harden Pharaoh's heart so he 
would not let them go? 

Deut. II., 30: The Lord God hardened Simon, 
King of Heshbon's heart, also. 

Is Jehovah of the Bible Almighty God? 

We have only the statement of the spirit for it, who 
declared himself that he was Almighty, and who after- 
ward said his right name was "Jehovah." 



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Exodus VI., Verse 2, says : "And God spake unto 
Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord." 

Verse 3 : "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto 
Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty ; 
but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. 
Then his right name was Jehovah, and not Almighty 
God," was it not ? 

He Tells Moses His Name Is I AM THAT I AM. 

Ex. III. : When Jehovah appeared to Moses in the 
burning bush, he told him that he had seen the affliction 
of his people, and that he had come down to deliver 
them out of the hands of the Egyptians and to bring 
them into a land of milk and honey. He said he would 
send him to Pharaoh and he (Israel's God) would 
bring the Israelites out of Egypt. 

Moses did not think he was able to do it, and asked 
the spirit what his name was, that he might tell his 
people who the spirit was that came to him and prom- 
ised to deliver them out of Egypt (13th verse). 

The Spirit's Answer to Moses. 

Verse 14 : "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT 
I AM ; and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the chil- 
dren of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you." 

Verse 15: "And God said moreover unto Moses, 
Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The 
Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac 
and Jacob, hath sent me unto you." He says the Lord 
God sent him, so it was not God that appeared in the 
burning bush, but a spirit He sent. 

If This Is Not Black Magic, What Is It? 
Exod., Chapters VII., VIII., IX., and X., state that 
Moses did many miracles. He turned a rod into a 



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serpent, water of the rivers into blood, covered the 
land with frogs, and they died everywhere, making 
the land stink. Dust was turned to lice, swarms of 
flies were brought, the cattle afflicted of murrain and 
all died ; blains and boils were caused to come on man 
and beast ; thunder, rain, hail, fire mingled with hail, 
destroying crops, flax, barley, etc. Locusts were brought 
and they ate the crops. Thick darkness was brought 
for three days. Oh, it is a wonderful story, and all 
was accomplished by the spirit Jehovah acting and 
communicating through the mediumship of Moses ; but 
the magicians of Egypt did everything, excepting pro- 
duce lice, that Jehovah did through Moses, though at 
last the serpent of Moses swallowed up the magicians' 
serpents, which ended this contest between the God 
of Christianity and the King's magicians, and Moses, 
Aaron and Jehovah were the winners in this contest. 
These four chapters are very interesting reading for 
the Christian, the skeptic, the investigator or the infidel. 
Taken as a whole, this story does not appeal to a logical 
mind as the real word of Almighty God. 

Spirit Materialization. 

Exod. XIII., 21 : "And the Lord went before them 
by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way : and 
by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, to go by 
day and night." 

XIV., 19 : "And the angel of God which went before 
the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them ; 
and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, 
and stood behind them." 

Jehovah One of Many Gods. 
Exod. XV., 11: "Who is like unto thee, O Lord 



34 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in holi- 
ness, fearful in praises, doing wonders ?" 

Moses and the children of Israel sung the above in 
their songs of praise and worship. Probably other 
nations and tribes thought the same of their gods. 
Jehovah was only one spirit of many that were wor- 
shiped as gods, as is shown throughout the Old Testa- 
ment. 

Exod. XVI., Verses 10 and 11 : The Lord comes in 
a cloud and talks to Moses. 

Mediums For Finding Water. 

Exod. XVIL, 5 : "And the Lord said unto Moses, 
Go on before the people, and take with thee of the 
elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest 
the river, take in thine hand and go." 

Verse 6: "Behold, I w T ill stand before thee there 
upon the rock in Horeb ; and thou shalt smite the rock 
and there shall come water out of it, that the people 
may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders 
of Israel." 

Moses Gets a Spirit Message in the Seance Room. 

Numbers XX., Verses 6 to 11: These phenomena 

are repeated. Moses goes into the seance room and 

gets the message from his spirit guide, telling him 

how to get water for the congregation, and their cattle. 

Is This a Miracle from God or Only Black Magic — 
Moses' Rod Wins Battle. 

Exod. XVIL, 9: "And Moses said unto Joshua, 
Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek to- 
morrow. I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod 
of God (his divining rod) in mine hand." 

Verse 10 : "So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, 



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and fought with Amalek : and Moses, Aaron and Hur 
went up to the top of the hill." 

Verse 11 : "And it came to pass, when Moses held 
up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let 
down his hand, Amalek prevailed." 

Verse 12 : "But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they 
took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon, 
and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on 
the one side, and the other on the other side; and his 
hands were steady until the going down of the sun." 
Oh, how much depended upon this medium Moses 
holding up his hands ! Was this not wonderful spirit 
phenomena, if it were true? Some Spiritualists doubt 
its truth. 

Verse 13 : "And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his 
people with the edge of the sword." 

Verse 14: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Write 
this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the 
ears of Joshua : for I will utterly put out the remem- 
brance of Amalek from under heaven. " Does this 
sound like a beautiful and loving message one would 
expect from our heavenly father, or is it the medium 
Moses whose mind furnishes this terrible message, and 
is not Jehovah's message? 

Jehovah a God of War. 

Verse 16: "For he (Moses) said, Because the Lord 
hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek 
from generation to generation." 

No spirit of Modern Spiritualism ever held up a 
medium's hands, thereby controlling two armies en- 
gaged in battle and bringing victory to the army the 
medium selected to win the battle. Is this story the 
true word of God ? 



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Moses a Medium. 

Exod. XVIII. , 15 : Moses was a medium. He says : 
"The people come unto me to enquire of God." Fa- 
miliar spirits were called gods in those days. 

Many Gods — Jehovah Greatest of Them All. 

In the 11th verse, Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, says : 
"Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods; 
for in the things wherein they deal proudly he was 
above them." 

Trumpet Seance in the Dark. 

Exod. XIX. : Jehovah and Moses make arrange- 
ments for a dark trumpet seance. The 16th verse says : 
"A thick cloud was upon the mount, and the voice of 
the trumpet exceedingly loud." 

Verse 9: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I 
come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may 
hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever." 
Will some good Christian opposer of Spiritualism ex- 
plain why Jehovah had to hide himself in a cloud when 
he came to speak to the people? Why did he not come 
out in the open to convince them? We Spiritualists 
think we know why, for we understand the law con- 
trolling such manifestations. A spirit sometimes needs 
a cabinet to manifest today ; it is the law ; but if 
Jehovah was God and he made the law, one would 
suppose that he could set aside the law and appear 
without a cabinet or cloud. 

Verse 19: "And when the voice of the trumpet 
sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses 
spake and God answered him by a voice." Probably 
an independent spirit voice. 

The remainder of this chapter threatens the people 



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with dire disaster, "lest they break through unto the 
Lord" and spoil his seance. 

The Ten Commandments a Spirit Communication 
from Jehovah. 
Exod. XX., 3, says : "Thou shalt have no other gods 
before Me." 

Jehovah Thinks the Earth Rests on Water. 

If Jehovah made the world, and the water, He 
should have known the world does not rest upon the 
water. If He was the spirit of a mere man, He may 
have believed there was water under it. 

The Second Commandment. 
XX., 4: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any 
graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in 
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is 
in the water tinder the earth." 

Forbids It, Then Makes Images Himself. 

Although in this commandment He forbids the mak- 
ing of images and likenesses of anything, He Himself 
orders them made for His spirit cabinet, the Ark of 
the Covenant. (See Deut. IV., 18, for more.) 

Exod. XXV., 18: "And thou shalt make two cher- 
ubims of gold of beaten work shalt thou make them, 
in the two ends of the mercy seat." 

Verse 20: "And the cherubims shall stretch forth 
their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their 
zvings, and their faces shall look on one another." 

In this did He not violate His own second command- 
ment? 

If Christians lived up to this commandment there 



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would never be seen the forms supposed to represent 
Jesus, the Virgin Mary or any of the saints in their 
churches. If all heeded this commandment there would 
be no photos or paintings of parents, children, or friends 
hanging on the walls of the homes of the people of 
the world. No illustrated publications, no picture shows, 
etc. There would be lost to the race much that now 
beautifies life and blesses it. 

It is encouraging that all Christians ignore this com- 
mandment of the spirit of Jehovah, the Jewish God, 
and we cast our vote with the Jews, Christians and 
infidels who disobey this second commandment of the 
spirit Jehovah, the God of Israel. 

The Ten Commandments Given Through a Trumpet 
at This Same Great Seance. 

Exod. XX., Verse 1 : "And God spake all these 
words, saying" : Then follows the Ten Command- 
ments, and following them is the proof that He spoke 
them through the trumpet. 

Verse 18 : "And all the people saw the thunderings 
and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and 
the mountain smoking, and when the people saw it, they 
removed and stood afar off." 

The 21st verse says God was in "thick darkness," and 
in the 22nd verse He tells Moses to tell his people as 
follows : 

"Ye have seen that I have talked with you from 
heaven." So it will be seen that Jehovah, the God of 
the Israelites, was the communicating spirit in this dark 
seance, and talking through the trumpet. Do Chris- 
tians believe in dark circles and trumpet seances ? Spir- 
itualists do, but they have had no experiences with dark 
seances at the top of a burning mountain where there 



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is always so much fire as there was at this Bible seance 
to light up the darkness. 

Human Slavery Upheld by Jehovah. 

This same spirit, Jehovah, whom Christians believe 
gave the Ten Commandments, goes on giving orders 
to Moses to the end of this chapter, and in the twenty- 
first chapter He teaches and upholds human slavery 
and makes terrible laws to continue it. This and the 
twenty-second chapter constitute a part of a long series 
of the most horrible spirit communications, which 
greatly exceed in their horrors the malicious falsehoods 
that the meanest, most vindictive opponent of Modern 
Spiritualism ever circulated against Spiritualism, Spir- 
itualists or their mediums, and these purport to be 
messages from God in heaven. "O consistency, thou art 
a jewel !" 

Spirit Jehovah Says He Gave a Message from 
Heaven Through a Trumpet. 

Exod. XX., 22, says: "And the Lord said unto 
Moses : Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel. 
Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven." 

Hate Your Enemies, Jehovah Teaches. 
Exod. XXL, 23, 24, 25 : 23d, "Life for life"; 24th, 
"Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for 
foot" ; 25th, "Burning for burning, wound for wound, 
stripe for stripe." This whole chapter should be inter- 
esting to the Bible worshiper. (See Lev. XXIV., 18, 
Deut. XIX., 21, for more of same.) 

Witches Ordered Killed. 
Exod. XXII., 18: Jehovah in this spirit message 
says : "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Here 



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the author would candidly and reverently ask, is there 
an intelligent Christian in the United States today that 
really believes there ever was a witch? If there never 
was a witch, then Spirit Jehovah was legislating against 
nothing, or against a myth which has caused thousands 
of innocent mediums of the past to suffer death as 
witches. Oh, the horrors that this passage of scripture 
has caused ! Oh, that they may never return and that 
they might be forgotten ! 

An Angel Guides Them. 

XXIII. , 20 : "Behold, I send an angel before thee, to 
keep thee in the way and to bring thee on the way I 
have prepared. " 

Verses 22 to 28: Jehovah promises that his angel 
shall go before them and cut off "six tribes, and destroy 
the people, and he will send hornets which shall drive 
out three tribes, and that these Israelites shall possess 
a large tract of their land." Is this Divine justice? 
Is Jehovah a god of war? Is this scripture a precedent 
which guided the Kaiser in his awful acts in the late 
world's war? 

God Seen. 

Exod. XXIV., 9: "Then went up Moses and Aaron, 
Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel." 

Verse 10: "And they saw the God of Israel (the 
spirit Jehovah)." The 11th verse says that the Nobles 
of the Children of Israel saw God also. 

Moses Goes for a Spirit Slate Writing. 

Verses 12 to 18: The Lord, or spirit Jehovah, in- 
vites Moses and Joshua to go with him up into the 
mount of God to get a spirit writing on two tables of 
stone (slates), and Moses was there forty days and 
forty nights. 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 41 

Spirit Speaks to Him Out of a Cloud. 
Verse 16: The spirit called unto Moses out of the 
cloud that covered the cabinet. 

Spirit Cabinet Ordered by Jehovah, Giving Explicit 
Instructions How to Make It. 
Exod. XXV. : The spirit Jehovah gives detailed in- 
structions to Moses how to make his spirit cabinet. 

Size of Cabinet. 

The 10th verse tells the size of it, which by our 
present-day measurements was four feet three inches 
long, two feet three inches wide and two feet three inches 
high. It was covered with gold within and without, and 
was the most sacred possession of the Israelites. Some 
things which it contained were made of gold. Of 
course, no modern medium could afford the expense 
of gold linings or gold furniture for his cabinet, but 
Moses was better paid than are modern mediums. His 
cabinet had curtains same as modern ones, only they 
were inlaid with gold (XXVI. , 1). 

Spirit Communion. 

This twenty-fifth chapter continues the spirit in- 
structions in the making of this spirit cabinet for spirit 
materialization and other spirit phenomena, and in the 
22nd verse the communicating spirit says : "And there 
I will meet with thee and will continue with thee," etc. 
This is spirit communion through the use of the spirit 
cabinet, and is precisely the same as in Modern Spirit- 
ualism. Ministers and other Christians who deny spirit 
communion should not deny these teachings of their 
"Sacred Bible/' 

In the twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, 
twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth chapters the 



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spirit gives Moses explicit directions in the making of 
an altar, or spirit cabinet, where to place it, etc., and 
promises to meet him in communication there. 

Enemies Capture Moses' Spirit Cabinet. 

First Sam. V., VI., tells the story of the capture of the 
Ark or spirit cabinet, and says they put it in the house 
of Dagon, and set it beside their god Dagon, and the 
way the story reads, Jehovah and the god Dagon must 
have had a clash during the first night, for early in 
the morning Dagon was lying on the floor on his face 
before the Ark of the Lord. They put Dagon back in 
his place again and the next morning he was found 
lying in the same position. "And the head of Dagon 
and both the palms were cut off upon the threshold ; only 
the stump of Dagon was left to him." The God of 
Israel won this bout, because no injuries to him are 
mentioned in the story. This so frightened the Philis- 
tines that they put the Ark or cabinet upon a cart and 
tied two new milch cows to it and they ran straight 
into the camp of the Israelites, and the Israelites were 
glad to have the cabinet back again. To enjoy this 
wonderful story one should read it carefully, analyzing 
it as he reads, and it would be well to keep in mind the 
fact that this "Ark of the Covenant" was a cabinet 
made expressly for the reception of spirit phenomena 
and spirit communion, and also by spirit direction. 
This wonderful story is found in 1st Sam., fourth, fifth 
and sixth chapters. 

Moses Well Paid for His Seances. 

Exod. XXX., Verses 12, 13, 14: The spirit instructs 

Moses to collect half a shekel from every one of the 

Israelites who are over twenty years old, "as an offering 

unto the Lord." It may be well to bear in mind the 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 43 

fact that Moses was cashier for the Lord and handled 
all of his money and was the business manager, han- 
dling all his other interests on earth ; that the Lord did 
not handle one cent of all that came into the hands 
of Moses. 

Verse 15: The spirit tells Moses, "The rich shall 
not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than half 
a shekel when they give an offering to make an atone- 
ment for your souls. " 

One-half shekel is about 30 cents in American money. 
There were 603,550 men over twenty years old and 
able to go to war (see Numbers, Chap. I., Verse 46), 
making this collection $181,065.50. Besides this, he had 
all the sacrifices brought to him, and one-tenth of all 
the land produced. Was Moses not well paid for acting 
as a medium for Israel's spirit guide, Jehovah? And 
yet in the state of Michigan the Christians formulated 
a bill, presented it to the legislature three different times, 
passing it at the third, condemning spirit communion 
and classing it with fortune telling, astrology, palm- 
istry, etc., and making it a crime to practice one's 
mediumship and punishable by a fine and imprison- 
ment. Dear old Moses could not have practiced his 
mediumship as he did in Israel had it been in this 
modern day, and he had lived in the great and "civilized 
state of Michigan, without being liable to the disgrace 
of a fine or the ignominy of a prison sentence. O con- 
sistency! O boasted land of Religious Liberty! Can 
Michigan, "My Michigan," be located in thy sacred 
borders? Is this the religious freedom for which our 
forefathers fought and died? Let the curtain fall and 
hide the shame of it ! The gospel then as now in Chris- 
tianity was not furnished "without money and without 
price." 



44 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

This Spirit Guide Inspires Other Mediums. 

Exod. XXXL, Verses 1 to 11 : The spirit guide of 
Moses inspires Hazaleel "to devise cunning works, to 
work in gold and in silver, and in brass." 

Verse 5 : "And in cutting stones, to set them, and 
in carving of timber, to work in all manner of work- 
manship," etc. The same is done in Modern Spiritual- 
ism. Its mediums are inspired to paint, to do wonder- 
ful works in the production of spirit pictures, to make 
inventions, etc. (See Exod. XXL, XXV., XXVII., for 
more.) 

Ten Commandments Given Second Time on Slates. 
Exod. XXXL, 18: "And he (Jehovah) gave unto 
Moses, when he had made an end of communing with 
him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables 
of stone, written with the finger of God." Two slates. 
Modern mediums get spirit writing between two tables 
of stone and we can see this manifestation, which is 
better than reading about these ancient slate writings. 

Golden Calf Worshiped. 

Exod. XXXII. , Verses 1 to 7 : Aaron takes the gold 
earrings, etc., of the Israelites and makes them into a 
golden calf. 

Verse 8 : Spirit Jehovah tells Moses they have made 
a molten calf and are worshiping it. 

Jehovah's Wrath Waxes Hot. 

Verse 9 : The Lord calls them "stiff-necked" people. 

Verse 10 : Speaking to Moses, the Lord says : "Now 
therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot 
against them, and that I may consume them." This 
shows that Moses had great influence with this God 
of Christianity. 



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Exod. XXXIL, 11, 12 and 13: Moses pleads with 
Jehovah, asking him to repent. 

Jehovah Repents Again. 
Verse 14 says : "And the Lord repented of the evil 
which he thought to do unto the people/' 

Moses Gets Slate Writing. 

Verse 15 : "And Moses turned and went down from 
the mount, and the two tables of testimony (slate writ- 
ing) were in his hand : the tables were written on both 
their sides : on the one side and on the other were they 
written. " 

Verse 16: "And the tables were the work of God, 
and the writing was the writing of God (or the spirit 
writing of Jehovah), graven upon the tables." Evi- 
dently Moses was a slate writing medium similar to our 
modern slate writing mediums. (See Deut. IV., 13, 
also.) 

Moses in Anger Smashes Slates. 

Verse 19: "And it came to pass as soon as he 
(Moses) came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, 
and the dancing : and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he 
cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath 
the mount. " It seems strange that the great Moses 
should destroy them in anger after he and Jehovah had 
spent forty days and forty nights in procuring the 
writing upon them. Spirits work more rapidly these 
days. We have witnessed several times the filling of 
two large school slates, placed together, with spirit 
writing in a few minutes. 

First Record of the Gold Cure. 

Verse 20 : "And he took the calf which he had made, 



46 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

and burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder (by 
what process the witness saith not), and strawed 
(strewed) it upon the water, and made the children of 
Israel drink it" Was this Gold Cure as effectual in 
curing idol worship as the Gold Cure of today is in 
curing alcoholism ? Who knows ? 

"Slay Every Man His Brother," is Jehovah's Orders. 

Verse 27: "And he (Moses) said unto them (unto 
the Levites, who were all priests), Thus saith the Lord 
God of Israel. Put every man his sword by his side 
and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the 
camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man 
his companion, and every man his neighbor." 

Three Thousand Slain. 

Verse 28 : "And the children of Levi did according 
to the word of Moses, and there were slain of the people 
that day about three thousand men." Aaron, the 
brother of Moses, the leader of this idol worship, 
was not punished. Oh, how can any thinking person 
worship a spirit who would order such a wholesale 
slaughter of mostly innocent people, and let the guilty 
go free ? 

More Materialization — Jehovah Lets Moses See 
Only His Back Parts. 

Exod. XXXIII., Verses 11 to 20. 

Verse 21 : Jehovah tells Moses he shall stand on a 
rock. 

The 22nd verse says: "And it shall come to pass, 
while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clif t 
of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while 
I pass by." 

Verse 23 : "And I will take away mine hand, and 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 47 

thou shalt see my back parts ; but my face shall not be 
seen. ,, This must have been a wonderful seance for 
materialization. Such phenomena never occur in Mod- 
ern Spiritualism. 

Bible Contradictions — "No Man Shall See His 
Face," Jehovah says. 

Verse 11: "And the Lord spake to Moses face to 
face as a man speaks unto his friend. " 

The 20th verse contradicts this by saying, "And he 
(Jehovah) said, Thou canst not see my face; for there 
shall no man see me and live." 

In the 2nd verse, in a spirit message, Jehovah says : 
"He will send an angel before the Israelite warriors 
and drive out six tribes or nations, and give them their 
homes and other possessions." Would not we Ameri- 
cans think Jehovah was an evil spirit if he would send 
an army of barbarous Israelites, headed by an angel, 
to rob us of our homes, slaughter us, and "inherit our 
land of milk and honey"? 

Another Dark Seance. 

Verse 9: "And it came to pass, as Moses entered 
into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and 
stood at the door of the tabernacle and the Lord talked 
with Moses." This cloud made the seance room dark, 
no doubt, and shut out the sight from the congregation. 
Some spirits manifest better in the dark than in the 
light. It was the case with Jehovah. 

Another Spirit Slate Writing. 
Chap. XXXIV., Verse 1 : "And the Lord said unto 
Moses, Hew the two tables of stone (two slates) like 
unto the first and I will write upon these tables the 



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words that were on the first tables, which thou breakest." 

Verse 4: "And he hewed two tables of stone like 
unto the first : and Moses rose up early in the morning, 
and went up unto Mount Sinai, as the Lord had com- 
manded him, and took in his hand the two tables of 
stone/' 

Verse 5 : The Lord came down in a cloud which he 
used as a spirit cabinet. Following this the God of 
Israel gives more commands and makes more promises 
to Moses. 

Verse 28 says : "And he (Moses) was there with the 
Lord for forty days and forty nights ; he did neither 
eat bread nor drink water, and he wrote upon the tables 
(or slates) the words of the covenant, the Ten Com- 
mandments." 

Was Moses Transfigured? 

Verses 29, 30 and 35 says: "The skin of Moses' 
face shone and they were afraid to come near him." 
Was he transfigured ? 

Jehovah Has Still Another Name — It Is "Jealous." 

Verse 14 : "For thou shalt worship no other god : 
for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." 

Exodus a Continuous Record of Spirit Communion. 

The book of Exodus, like most of the other books of 
the Old Testament, is one continuous record of spirit 
communion ; the spirit Jehovah communicating with 
Moses and the Israelites, and he who believes the state- 
ments recorded therein must believe that spirits com- 
municate with mortals, whether he thinks he is a Spirit- 
ualist or not. 

The Book of Leviticus — A Long Spirit Message. 

Twenty-five of the twenty-seven chapters of Leviti- 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 49 

cus are purely spirit messages, given by Spirit Jehovah 
through the mediumship of Moses. 

Twenty of these chapters begin with words like 
these : "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying." 
Chap. I., Verse 1, says: "And the Lord called unto 
Moses, and spake unto him out of the Tabernacle of 
the congregation (which was Moses' spirit cabinet), 
saying :" Following this comes the message from the 
spirit Jehovah to Moses, and includes what Christians 
denominate the law of God. 

Moses a Fire Medium. 

Lev. IX., 24: Fire came out of the spirit cabinet 
and consumed their meat offering. 

Lev. X., 1, 2: "Fire from the Lord came out and 
devoured Aaron's two sons, and they died before the 
Lord." This shows that Moses or Aaron, or both of 
them, were fire mediums, and that Jehovah did not 
value human life very highly. 

Lev. IX., 23, 24: "Fire came out from before the 
Lord and consumed the offering lying on the altar." 

Spirits or Spirit Cabinet Kills People. 
Lev. XVI., Verse 2 : Spirit Jehovah tells Moses to 
"speak unto Aaron, thy brother, that he come not at 
all times into the holy place within the vail before the 
mercy seat, which is upon the ark, that he die not ; 
for I will appear (i. e., the spirit will materialize) in 
the cloud over the mercy seat." He could not mate- 
rialize in it standing because the ark, or spirit cabinet, 
was but two feet nine inches high. This spirit ma- 
terialized to the Israelites, to the common people occa- 
sionally, but never in the cabinet. 



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Jehovah Tells Israel to Load Sins on a Goat. 
This whole chapter tells how they got rid of the sins 
of the Israelites, and the method seems to partake some- 
what of witchcraft. 

Cast Lots to Learn God's Wishes. 

Lev. XVI : Spirit Jehovah does all the talking in this 
chapter excepting the last eight words. One should 
read it all to learn if it is a spirit message worthy of 
God Almighty. During all this talk one would think 
Jehovah could have made His choice of goats if He 
were God, as well as to tell them through Moses to 
cast lots to learn His own wishes. 

Verse 7 : Jehovah says, "And he shall take the two 
goats and present them before the Lord at the door 
of the tabernacle of the congregation." 

Verse 8: "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two 
goats, one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the 
'scape goat." 

Load Sins on Goat. 

Verse 9: "And Aaron shall bring the goat upon 
which the Lord's lot fell, and offer him for a sin 
offering." 

Verse 10 : "But the goat on which the lot fell to be 
the 'scape goat shall be presented alive before the Lord, 
to make an atonement with Him, and to let him go for a 
'scape goat into the wilderness." 

Verses 1 1 to 20 : Aaron is instructed to offer incense, 
sacrifices, etc. Some parts of the ceremony seem very 
frivolous and trifling. 

Verse 21 says : "And Aaron shall lay both his hands 
upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him 
all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their 
transgressions, in all their sins, putting them upon the 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 51 

head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand 
of a fit man into the wilderness. " 

Used Against Spiritualism. 

XIX., 31: "Regard not them that have familiar 
spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them. 
I am the Lord your God." 

This is in itself a spirit message from Jehovah and 
is often quoted by the opponents of Spiritualism in their 
mad desire to destroy it. 

Opposes Spirit Communication. 

Lev. XX., 6 : Opposes visiting those who have famil- 
iar spirits. 

Jehovah Not God of All Nations. 

Lev. XX., 26 : "And ye shall be holy unto me ; for 
I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other 
people that ye should be mine." That is, only Jews 
are Jehovah's people, is it not? If so, Christians are 
shut out by Jehovah. There were no Christians at 
this time. 

This proves that Jehovah was not the God of all 
nations, much less the God of this universe. 

Again Spirit Communion Opposed. 

Verse 27 says : "A man also or a woman that hath 
a familiar spirit (this is an acknowledgment that men 
and women do have familiar spirits), or that is a 
wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone 
them with stones ; their blood shall be upon them." 

It was Jehovah, the familiar spirit of Moses, who 
issued this terrible decree against ancient mediums, and 
it must include Moses, as he is a man, and it says a 
man also, or a woman that hath a familiar spirit shall 
surely be stoned to death, and he, Jehovah, who issued 



52 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

the terrible decree, was the familiar spirit of the me- 
dium Moses, through whom he was then speaking. 

This entire chapter is a spirit message from spirit 
Jehovah, the former Egyptian priest and warrior, whose 
purpose was to control all Israel. 

Adventists and other Christian opponents of Spirit- 
ualism, who glibly quote the above mentioned scripture 
in their denominational literature, including their many 
books and pamphlets entitled "Spiritualism Exposed/' 
etc., would hardly dare to quote the whole of this chap- 
ter, from which they have selected these titbits of 
orthodox theology, even though they do attribute its 
writings to their God, as his infallible message to the 
world. 

Jehovah Orders a Perpetual Sunday Dinner for 
Aaron and His Sons. 
Lev. XXIV., Verses 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 : The spirit of 
the Lord arranged for a good Sunday dinner for Aaron 
and his sons, by a perpetual statute, that is : for all time. 
He also gives orders that on each occasion twelve cakes 
shall be made, and he gives the recipe for making them, 
including seasoning, etc. 

Prophecy of Jehovah Impossible of Fulfilment. 

Chapter XXVL, Verse 8: "And five of you shall 
chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten 
thousand to flight, and your enemies shall fall before 
you by the sword." 

Chap. XXVII. : This is a spirit communication from 
Jehovah relating to vows, paying tithings to the Lord, 
etc., all of which pay goes into the hands of Moses, 
Aaron and the other priests. These laws are arbitrary, 
indeed. Disobedience of this spirit's decree is pun- 
ishable with death. 



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Nothing Very Spiritual in Leviticus. 

There is little or nothing spiritual in this long spirit 
message of Jehovah's. It is not Spiritualism. It is 
Spiritism. 

The Book of Numbers. 

About twenty of the thirty-six chapters of Num- 
bers are spirit messages purporting to come from spirit 
Jehovah to the Israelites through the mediumship of 
Moses. The first chapter tells of the patriarchs or heads 
of the twelve tribes of Israel. 

Death to Come Near the Seance Room. 

Numb. L, 51, says: "And the stranger that cometh 
nigh (the tabernacle) shall be put to death." 

The tabernacle was their seance room or tent which 
contained the ark or spirit cabinet. 

Death to Enter Seance Room Again Decreed. 
Numbers IV., Verse 20 : Spirit Jehovah says : "But 
they shall not go in to see when the holy things are 
covered, lest they die." So many of these threats 
would certainly create suspicion of fraud if made by 
any modern medium. 

Bitter Water of Jealousy. 

Numb. V. is a spirit message from Jehovah, given to 
the medium Moses with instructions to tell it to the 
children of Israel. To Christians this stands as a "Rev- 
elation from God," which some ministers declare is 
superior to Reason. After reading this spirit message 
from Jehovah, any self-respecting Christian will hardly 
feel like casting reflections upon Modern Spiritualism 
by declaring its spirit messages "weak," "imbecile" and 
unworthy of the spirits who purport to be manifesting. 



54 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Moses Asks Questions of His Spirit Guide. 
Numbers IX., Verse 8 : "And Moses said unto them, 
Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord (spirit Jeho- 
vah) will command concerning you." 

An Unceasing Seance. 

Verse 15 : "The cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, 
the tent of the testimony and at even, there was upon 
the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire until 
the morning. ,, 

Verse 16: "So it was alway; the cloud covered it 
by day and the appearance of fire by night." 

Verse 22 : "Or whether it were two days, or a month, 
or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, 
remaining thereon, the children of Israel abode in 
their tents and journeyed not; but when it was taken 
up, they journeyed." 

Verse 23 : They obeyed the commandment of their 
spirit guide. 

Moses and Seventy Elders Hold Great Seance. 

Numbers XL, 23 : The Lord talks to Moses again. 

Verse 24: Moses forms the seance around the 
tabernacle. 

Verse 25 : "And the Lord (spirit guide) came down 
in a cloud and spake unto him, and took of the spirit 
that was upon him (upon Moses), and gave it unto 
the seventy elders ; and it came to pass, that when the 
spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not 
cease." Modern mediums prophesy when the spirit 
rests upon them. If one claim is true, why not the 
other ? 

Verse 29: Moses says: "Would God that all the 
Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would 



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put his spirit upon them." This is what Spiritualism 
teaches. 

Apports of Quails. 

The thirty-first verse says : "And there went forth 
a wind from the Lord (spirit Jehovah) and brought 
quails from the sea (quails do not live in the sea), and 
let them fall by the camp (so they must have been dead 
quails) ; as it were a day's journey (about twenty miles) 
on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other 
side, round about the camp (all around the camp), and 
as it were two cubits high (36 inches deep) upon the 
face of the earth. " 

Verse 32: "And the people stood up all that day, 
and all that night, and all the next day." (Doubtless 
because the quails were so deep there was no place to 
lie down.) "And they gathered the quails ; he that gath- 
ered least gathered ten homers (one homer is 10^4 bush- 
els, or 107^2 bushels each) ; and they spread them all 
abroad for themselves round about the camp." How 
could they gather them when they were three feet deep 
all around for twenty miles each way? And how 
could they spread them abroad under such conditions ? 
No record of production of apports in Spiritualism 
equals this. 

Moses Marries an Ethiopian — Jehovah Upholds 
Him in Doing So. 

Numbers XII. , 1 : "And Miriam and Aaron spake 
against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom 
he had married," for he had married an Ethiopian 
woman. Evidently they were opposed to having a 
negro woman for a sister-in-law. 

Verse 2 : Aaron and Miriam both claim to be me- 
diums. 



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Moses Meekest Man on Earth. 

Verse 3 : Now the man Moses was very meek, above 
all the men which were upon the face of the earth. 

Spirit Jehovah Orders a Seance of Four. 

Verse 4: The Lord ordered Moses, Aaron and 
Miriam into the seance room of Moses. 

Spirit Jehovah Materializes and Is Angry. 

Verse 5 : "And the Lord came down in the pillar of 
a cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle and 
called Aaron and Miriam ; and they both came forth. 

Verses 6, 7 and 8 : This materialized spirit scolded 
Aaron and Miriam because they were not satisfied with 
their brother Moses marrying an Ethiopian woman. 

Jehovah Angry Again. 

Verse 9 : "And the anger of the Lord was kindled 
against them; and He departed." (That is, he went 
away mad. A fine thing for a God of this universe to 
do, is it not?) 

Miriam Stricken with Leprosy by Jehovah. 
Verse 10 : This spirit Jehovah caused poor, innocent 
Miriam to be stricken with leprosy because she was 
offended at Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman. 

Death for Picking Sticks on Sabbath. 

Numbers XV., Verses 32 to 34 : They caught a man 
picking sticks on the Sabbath day, put him in ward, to 
await the spirit Jehovah's ruling in the matter. 

The Spirit's Message. 

Verse 35 : "And the Lord said unto Moses, The man 



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shall be surely put to death ; all the congregation shall 
stone him with stones without the camp." 

Verse 36: They stone him to death, "As the Lord 
commanded Moses." There never was such an awful 
thing as this received or carried out by instructions of 
spirits of Modern Spiritualism. It is a different re- 
ligion from that of Moses and the Israelites. 

Spirit Produces Earthquake, Killing His Enemies. 

Chap. XVI., 32 : "And the earth opened her mouth 

and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the 

men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 

More of Moses' Fire Mediumship. 

Verse 35 : "And there came out fire from the Lord, 
and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that 
offered incense." This was a spirit manifestation, but 
not a spiritual manifestation ; providing the story is 
true. 

Another Dark Seance — Aaron's Rod Blossoms. 

Chapter XVII., Verses 6, 7 and 8, tells of Moses 
taking twelve rods of the tribes of Israel, among which 
was Aaron's old dry rod, and Moses wrote Aaron's 
name on it so as to identify it and laid them up in the 
tabernacle or seance room. 

Verse 8 says : "And it came to pass, that on the 
morrow, Moses went into the tabernacle of witness 
(the seance room), and behold, the rod of Aaron 
for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth 
buds, and bloomed blossoms and yielded almonds." 
Isn't it strange that a good Christian who believes this 
story will not believe that spirits may bring forth flowers 
in a modern spirit seance? It requires no more dark- 



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ness for the modern seance than it did for this Bible 
seance. It lasted all night. 

More Threats of Death for Coming Near the Seance 

Room. 

Verse 13 threatens death to any who shall come near 
unto Moses' seance room. 

More Threats of Death. 
XVIII. , 22, forbids coming near the tabernacle, with 
penalty of death. 

Moses Gets Water Out of a Rock. 

Chapter XX., Verse 7: The Lord (spirit Jehovah) 
spake unto Moses, saying" : 

Verse 8 : Spirit tells him how to use the rod. 

Verse 11 : "And Moses lifted up his hand, and with 
his rod he smote the rock twice, and the water came 
out abundantly ; and the congregation drank, and their 
beasts also." One must accept this spirit phenomena, 
or orthodoxy sends him to his eternal doom. 

Jehovah Repudiates His Promise and Says Moses 
and Aaron Did Not Believe Him. 
Numbers XX., Verse 12, says : "And the Lord spake 
unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to 
sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, there- 
fore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land 
which I have given them." 

An Angel Brought Them Out of Egypt. 

Verse 16: "And when we cried unto the Lord he 
heard our voice, and sent an angel and brought us forth 
out of Egypt." This is Spiritualism. 



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Destroys Canaanites. 
Chapter XXL, 3 : "And the Lord hearkened to the 
voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites ; and 
they utterly destroyed them and their cities. " 

Fiery Serpents Sent to Kill People. 

"And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the peo- 
ple, and they bit the people : and much people of Israel 
died." Thus Jehovah kills more of his chosen people. 

Looking at a Brass Snake Cures Snake Bite. 

Numbers XXL, Verse 8: "And the Lord said unto 
Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole : 
and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten, 
when he looketh upon it, shall live." Is this not witch- 
craft? 

Verse 9 : "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and 
put it upon a pole : and it came to pass, that if a serpent 
had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of 
brass, he lived." 

Are Spiritualists superstitious, and Christians, who 
believe this true, not superstitious? 

Verse 35 : So they smote him (King Og), his sons, 
and all his people until there was none left him alive; 
and they possessed his land." Is this religion? 

Really and truly, kind reader, was this not a terrible 
thing for a spirit to do, and still worse for God to order 
such wholesale murder and plunder ? Nothing like this 
can be laid at the door of Modern Spiritualism. 

Balaam's Ass Clairvoyant and Talks, Using Human 
Language. 
Numbers XXII. : Jehovah tells Balaam to go ; then is 
angry because he went. Is this not strange? 



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A Dark Seance and a Spirit Message to Balaam. 

Verse 20: "And God came unto Balaam at night, 
and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up 
and go with them ; but yet the word which I shall say 
unto thee, that shalt thou do." 

Verse 21 : "And Balaam rose up in the morning, 
and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab." 

God's Anger Kindled Again. 
Verse 22: "And God's anger was kindled because 
he went : and the angel of the Lord stood in the way 
for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon 
his ass, and his two servants were with him." 

The Ass Was Clairvoyant. 

Verse 23 : "And the ass saw the angel of the Lord 
(the spirit) standing in the way, and his sword drawn 
in his hand : and the ass turned aside out of the way 
and went into the field ; and Balaam smote the ass, to 
turn her into the way." 

Angels or Spirits Seldom Bring Swords Nowadays. 

Verse 24: "But the angel of the Lord stood in a 
path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a 
wall on that side." 

Verse 25 : "And when the ass saw the angel of the 
Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed 
Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her 
again." 

Verse 26 : "And the angel of the Lord went further 
and stood in a narrow place, which was no way to turn 
either to the right hand or to the left." Who knows, 
and how does anyone know, that the ass saw the spirit 
there? Balaam had not seen it yet. 



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Verse 27 : "And when the ass saw the angel of the 
Lord, she fell down under Balaam : and Balaam's anger 
was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff." 

Ass Talks to Balaam. 

Verse 28 : "And the Lord opened the mouth of the 
ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto 
thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times? 

Balaam Talks to the Ass. 
Verse 29 : "And Balaam said unto the ass, Because 
thou hast mocked me : I would there were a sword 
in mine hand, for now I would kill thee." 

Ass Talks to Balaam Again. 
Verse 30 : "And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not 
I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I 
was thine unto this day? Was I ever wont to do so 
unto thee ? And he said Nay." Any Christian or other 
person who doubts this story of the ass talking is an 
infidel, and anyone who does not doubt it may, by some 
infidels, be considered non compos mentis. 

Balaam Becomes Clairvoyant. 
Verse 31 : "Then the Lord opened the eyes of 
Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in 
the way, and his sword drawn in his hand ; and he 
bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face." 

The Angel or Spirit Speaks. 
Verse 32: "And the angel of the Lord said unto 
him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three 
times? Behold, I went out to withstand thee because 
thy way is perverse before me." This is spirit com- 
munion. 



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The Ass Sees the Angel. 

Verse 33 : "And the ass saw me, and turned from 
me these three times ; unless she had turned from me, 
surely now also I had slain thee and saved her alive." 

Was poor Balaam to blame when he did not see the 
spirit ? 

In the 12th verse God said unto Balaam, "Thou shalt 
not go with them." 

In the 20th verse God tells him to "Rise up and go 
with them." 

And in the 22nd verse God's anger was kindled 
because he went. Was Jehovah a vacillating Deity, 
changing his mind so often? 

Balaam's Ass and Eve's Serpent Talking Bible 
Mediums. 

The clairvoyant and talking ass belongs entirely to 
Christianity, and Spiritualism lays no claim to such a 
wonderful beast. Only ancient spirits talked through 
asses. Modern spirits talk only through men, women 
and little children, who possess vocal organs capable 
of producing human language. Who are the most 
credulous people, those who believe in talking asses and 
talking serpents (Gen. III., Verses 1 to 5), or those 
who believe in inspired human beings ?" 

God Does Not Lie Nor Repent. 

Numbers XXIII., Verse 19: "God is not a man, 
that he should lie ; neither the son of man that he should 
repent." 

Verse 22 : The God of Israel "hath the strength of 
an unicorn." The father of that thought was a sage. 

Balaam Under Spirit Control. 
Numbers XXIV., 2 : "And the spirit of God came 



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upon him." That is, he was controlled by a spirit, the 
tribal God of Israel. 

Balaam Falls Into a Trance With His Eyes Open. 

Verse 4 : "He hath said, which heard the words of 
God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling 
into a trance, but having his eyes open." 

God Angry Again. 

Numb. XXV., 4 : "And the Lord said unto Moses, 
Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up 
before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger 
of the Lord may be turned away from Israel." 

Was this not a terrible spirit message ? 

Read what follows. 

Verse 5 : "And Moses said unto the judges of 
Israel, Slay ye every one of his men that were joined 
unto Baal-Peor" (the God of the Moabites). 

Verse 6: One of the children of Israel brought a 
Midianitish woman into the camp. 

Verses 7 and 8 : Phineas thrust this man and woman 
through with a javelin, "so the plague was staid." 

Twenty-Four Thousand Slain. 

Verse 9: "And those that died in the plague were 
twenty and four thousand." All slain, the innocent 
with the guilty, because Jehovah was angry. (Numbers 
XVI., 49, also.) 

Jehovah Jealous Again. 

Verse 11: Jehovah says : "Phineas . . . hath turned 
my wrath away from the children of Israel, . . . that 
I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy." 

In this Jehovah admits that Phineas, the priest, in- 
fluenced Him to change His mind. Therefore He was 
not "the changeless Deity." 



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Commercial Mediumship — Five Women Have 
Readings With Moses. 

Numbers XXVII. : These women consulted Spirit 
Jehovah regarding business. Is this fortune-telling? 
Or is it commercial mediumship ? 

The 1st verse gives the names of these women who 
consulted the mediums Moses and Eleazar to get spirit 
advice from the spirit Jehovah. 

The 2nd verse says they went to Moses, Eleazar and 
"the princes of the congregation by the door of the 
tabernacle (the seance room), saying" : 

Verse 3 : "Our father died in the wilderness, and 
he was not in the company of them that gathered them- 
selves together against the Lord in the company of 
Korah ; but died in his own sin, and had no son." 

Verse 4: "Why should the name of our father be 
done away from among our family, because he hath no 
son? Give unto us, therefore, a possession among the 
brethren of our father." 

Verse 5 : "And Moses brought their cause before 
the Lord (the spirit Jehovah)." 

This Was a Spirit Message. 

Verse 6: "And the Lord (the spirit) spake unto 
Moses, saying": 

Verse 7 : "The daughters of Zelophihad speak right : 
thou shalt surely give them a possession among their 
father's brethren ; and thou shalt cause the inheritance 
of their father to pass unto them." Should this be 
classed as commercial mediumship? It was for busi- 
ness. In this case, five women visited a medium 
(Moses) to get advice regarding their title to their 
father's land. The medium submitted the question to 
his spirit guide, and the spirit decided that the land 



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belonged to them. This was one of the most just de- 
cisions in favor of women ever made by Jehovah 
through the mediumship of Moses. If this had all 
occurred in Michigan in this day, would not Moses 
have been liable, under the present law, to a fine and 
imprisonment for telling fortunes ? 

Verses 12 and 13 : Jehovah foretells the death of 
Moses. Spirits do such things in these days. 

Joshua, a Medium, Selected Successor to Moses. 

Numbers XXVII., Verse 16: "Let the Lord, the 
God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the con- 
gregation. " 

Verse 18: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Take 
thee Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the 
spirit (that is, a spirit medium), and lay thine hand 
upon him. ,, 

Verse 21 : "And he shall stand before Eleazar, the 
priest, who shall ask council of him, after the judgment 
of Urim (Urim: a garment decorated with precious 
stones, used only by rulers, priests or prophets, as me- 
diums use a crystal, or a mirror, these days to con- 
centrate their minds that they may become receptive 
to spirit impressions), before the Lord; at his word 
shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in* 
both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even 
all the congregation." 

Thus, by the instructions of Spirit Jehovah, Moses' 
spirit guide, Joshua is made Moses' successor, and 
Spirit Jehovah endows him with mediumship. 

Strong Wine for Jehovah's Use. 
Numbers XXVIII., Verse 7 : "And the drink-offer- 
ing thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one 



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lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong 
wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering. 

Jehovah Not a Woman Suffragist — Opposed to 
Spiritualism. 

Chapter XXX., Verses 12 to 16, shows that Jehovah 
was not a woman suffragist. In the 13th verse he says : 
"Every vow and every binding oath to afflict the soul, 
her husband may establish it, or her husband may make 
it void." 

This gives the husband control of the wife and de- 
prives her of her freedom, which is entirely opposed to 
the teachings of Modern Spiritualism. 

Jehovah's Example in War — Terrible Deeds Ordered 
by Jehovah. 

Numbers XXXI., 1 : "And the Lord spake unto 
Moses, saying": 

Verse 2: "Avenge the children of Israel of the 
Midianites." 

Verse 7 : "And they warred against the Midianites, 
as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the 
males/' 

Verse 9 : They "took all the women of Midian cap- 
tives, and their little ones," etc. 

Verse 13 : Moses, Eleazer, the priest, and the princes 
met them outside the camp when they returned. 

Verse 14: Moses was wroth (very angry) with the 
officers. 

Verse 17 : He says : "Now therefore kill every male 
among the little ones (they had killed all the men), and 
kill every woman that hath known man" . . . 

Verse 18: "But all the women children, that have 
not known a man . . . keep alive for yourselves" 



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Verse 21 : "And Eleazer the priest said unto the 
men of war which went to battle, This is the law which 
the Lord commanded Moses." 

In the 25th to 31st verses, The Lord (Jehovah) tells 
Moses how to divide the "prey that was taken," between 
the soldiers, the congregation and the priesthood. 

Verse 31 says : And Moses and Eleazer the priest did 
as the Lord commanded Moses. 

Verse 35 says : There were "thirty and two thousand 
persons in all, of women that had not known man . . ." 

Verse 40: "And the persons (virgins kept alive for 
themselves) were sixteen thousand ; of which the Lord's 
tribute was thirty and two persons." 

Verse 41 : "And Moses gave the tribute which was 
the Lord's heave-offering unto Eleazer the priest, as 
the Lord commanded Moses/' 

The author of this book sincerely wishes the thirty- 
first chapter of Numbers had never been printed in the 
Bible, and prays that it may be eliminated. It surely 
does not speak well of the Jewish God Jehovah. 

Numbers XXXL, Verses 48, 49, and 50. 

Army Officers Make Atonement for Terrible Crimes. 

Verse 50: "We have therefore brought an oblation 
(oblation, an offering where no life is destroyed) for 
the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of 
gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings and tablets, 
to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord." 

This oblation consisted of a small part of their plun- 
der, and Moses received it, for it was the Lord's. 

One would think the murderers of thousands of little 
boys and innocent women needed to make atonement 
for their souls as a settlement for their frightful deeds. 



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Mediumship — Moses Well Paid for His. 

Verse 51 : "And Moses and Eleazer, the priest, took 
the gold of them and all wrought jewels." 

Verse 52: Moses received 16,750 shekels (Webster 
says a shekel of gold is equivalent to $10.88. This being 
true, Moses received $182,240, or its equivalent in gold, 
for acting as medium for the spirit of Jehovah in this 
terrible massacre of innocent men, women and boys. 

Whether we should lay all of this wickedness to 
Jehovah, or attribute some part of it to Moses, his 
medium, is a question too intricate to be hastily decided. 
All of these wicked orders were spoken out of the 
mouth of Moses. He claims they were given by the 
Spirit Jehovah. But Jehovah accuses other Bible me- 
diums of "prophesying out of their own hearts" and 
"their own thoughts," and we cannot tell how much of 
this wickedness originated in the mind of Moses. We 
remember he murdered the Egyptian, and so must 
doubt him. If it be laid to Moses, Jehovah is vindicated, 
and if Moses is guilty of this deception, all other acts 
attributed to Jehovah by Moses, good and bad, are to 
be doubted, and the Deity of Jehovah is gravely un- 
certain. 

Numbers XXXI. is one of the many chapters that 
the author of this work wishes had been left out of 
the "holy book." 

Numbers XXXII. 

Jehovah's Anger Again Kindled — Kept Israelites in 
Wilderness Until All Then Living Were Dead. 

Verse 13 : "And the Lord's anger was kindled 
against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilder- 
ness forty years, until all the generation that had done 
evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed." 



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Jehovah plans more war and slaughter, through 
Moses, according to this chapter. 

The Lord Angry — Repudiates His Promise. 

Deut. I., 34, says : "And the Lord heard the voice 
of your words and was wroth, and swore, saying: 

Verse 35 : "Surely there shall not one of these men 
of this evil generation see that good land, which I swore 
to give unto your fathers. " 

Jehovah a Jealous God. 

Deut. IV., Verse 24: "For the Lord, thy God. is a 
consuming fire, even a jealous God." (See also Ex. 
XX., 5 ; XXXIV., 14; Deut. VI., 15.) 

Lord Talked Face to Face. 

Chapter V., 4 : "The Lord talked with you face to 
face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire." 

Spirit Materialization. 

Verse 31 : "But as for thee, stand thou here by me 
and I will speak unto thee all the commandments and 
the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they 
may do them in the land which I give thee to possess it." 

Was This the Just Act of a Good God? 

Deut. VI., 10 : And it shall be, when the Lord thy 
God shall have brought thee into the land which he 
szvore unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to 
Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou 
buildest not. 

Verse 1 1 : "And houses full of all good things, which 
thou filled st not, and wells digged, which thou digged st 



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not, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not; 
when thou shalt have eaten and be full." 

Was it right to rob those owners, who built their 
homes, their cities, etc., by their own labor, and give 
all their possessions to these Jewish marauders? This 
may be God's justice, but it is hard to believe it. Had 
these home-owners ever seen or heard of Moses or his 
great army until they appeared in their country and 
began this war of annihilation of its inhabitants, and 
confiscation or robbery of their homes, land and all 
other possessions ? The above is not in accord with the 
teachings of Spiritualism. 

Jehovah a Jealous God. 

Deut. V., 9: "For the Lord thy God is a jealous 
God," etc. 

Jehovah Makes Clothing Last Forty Years. 

VIII. , 4: "Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, 
neither did thy foot swell these forty years." 

If Spirit Jehovah could make clothing last forty 
years, more than fourteen hundred years before Christ, 
why should He let clothing wear out and people suffer 
for want of it in Belgium and other Christian countries 
today ? 

Spirit Guides or Gods Make Money for Mediums. 

Deut. VIII., 17 : "And thou say in thine heart my 
power, and the might of mine hand, hath gotten me 
this wealth." 

Verse 18 : "But thou shalt remember the Lord thy 
God : for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, 
that he may establish his covenant, which he swore 
unto thy fathers, as it is this day." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 71 

Is it right for Bible mediums to have pay for their 
.services, and wrong for modern mediums to accept it ? 

Jehovah Again Jealous. 

Deut. VIII., Verse 19: "And it shall be, if thou do 
at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other 
gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify 
against you this day, that ye shall surely perish. " (See 
also 20th verse.) 

Slate Writing. 

Chapter X, Verses 1 to 6 : Moses tells of his getting 
the slate writing again. 

Jehovah Terrible. 

Verse 17: "For the Lord your God is God of gods, 
and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, 
which regardeth not persons nor taketh reward." 

Who can doubt this statement after reading of his 
terrible acts ? (See also Deut. XL, 16, 17, 23, 26.) 

Kill Relatives for Teaching Other Religions. 

Chap. XIII., 1st to 10th verses. Murder of relatives 
is ordered by this Jehovah for worshiping other gods. 
Is this in accord with the Ten Commandments which 
say, "Thou shalt not kill"? 

What to Eat and What Not to Eat. 

Chap. XIV. : Jehovah, in this spirit message, pro- 
hibits eating swine flesh, and yet in nearly every Chris- 
tian country the flesh of the dirty swine is a dainty 
morsel, and is sold at the highest price to Christians 
who eat it. 

Eat It Not, but Sell It. 
Verse 21 : "Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth 



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of itself ; thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in 
thy gates that he may eat it ; or thou mayest sell it unto 
an alien : for thou art an holy people unto the Lord 
thy God." 

About Paying Tithings. 

Definition: Tithe, "The tenth part of anything." 
"To tax to the amount of a tenth." — Webster. 

Verse 22 : "Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of 
thy seed that the field bringeth forth year by year." 

Verse 24: "And if the way be too long for thee, 
so that thou art not able to carry it ;" 

Buy Strong Drink With Tithings. 

Verse 25 : "Then shalt thou turn it into money. . . . 

Verse 26: "And thou shalt bestow that money for 
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for 
sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for what- 
soever thy soul desireth ; and thou shalt eat there before 
the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and 
thine household." 

This proves that Jehovah was no prohibitionist. 

Used in Opposing Spiritualism. 

Deut. XVIII., 10, says : "There shall not be found 
among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter 
to pass through the fire, or that useth divination (fore- 
telling the future). (Some orthodox Christian minis- 
ters foretell the future, and if their divinations come 
true, Spiritualists will not need to buy coal in the great 
hereafter), or an observer of times (all Christian 
churches are observers of times), or an enchanter, or a 
witch." (We know no enchanters; there never was a 
witch. This has nothing to do with Modern Spirit- 
ualism.) 



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Verse 11 : "Or a charmer, or a consulter with 
familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. " 

Was not Moses a necromancer ? He consulted famil- 
iar spirits upon many subjects and daily. His most 
familiar spirit was Jehovah, the Lord, Almighty God, 
et al. Other spirits came to him, such as the "angel 
of the Lord," "the angel of God," "His angel," etc. 

Prophets Speak Presumptuously. 

Deut. XVIII. , Verse 22 : "When a prophet speaketh 

in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor 

come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not 

spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously." 

Jehovah a God of War. 
XX., Verse 4 : "For the Lord your God is He that 
goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, 
to save you." 

Kill the Males, Save Females for Selves. 

Verses 13 and 14 say: "Kill all the males, but the 
women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is 
in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take 
unto thyself ; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine 
enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee." 

Kill Everything That Breathes. 

Verse 16 : In other cities taken from these people 
He says : "Thou shalt save alive nothing that breath- 
eth." 

Verse 17: "But thou shalt utterly destroy them." 

Spirit Jehovah's Message on Marriage Contradicts 
the Teachings of Spiritualism. 

Deut. XXL, Verses 10 to 15, and XXIV., Verses 
1 to 5 ; XXV., Verses 5 to 9, purport to be messages 



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from Spirit Jehovah through the medium Moses, re- 
garding marriage ; these are absolute contradictions to 
the beautiful teachings of Modern Spiritualism, and it 
would greatly improve the scriptures if they were elimi- 
nated from them. 

Threatenings, Terrible. 

Deut. XXIX., 1, says : "These are the words of the 
covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make 
with the children of Israel in the Land of Moab, besides 
the covenant which he made with them in Horeb." 

This shows that Spirit Jehovah was the author of 
these horrible edicts. 

Did Jehovah Keep Clothing New Forty Years? 

Verse 5 : Jehovah keeps their clothing new, and their 
shoes did not get old in forty years. If any spirit of 
our day and generation would cause clothing and shoes 
to last forty years, and not get old, everyone would 
join the Spiritualists. 

XXXI. , 15 : The spirit Jehovah appears in material- 
ized form over the door of the cabinet. It was not 
high enough for a man to stand up in it, it being but 
4 feet 3 inches high. 

Moses Dies. 

XXXIV., 5 : "So Moses, the servant of the Lord, 
died," etc. 

Verse 6 : "The Lord buried him in a valley in the 
land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man 
knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day." 

Present day spirits do not bury their mediums when 
they die. 

Verse 7 : "And Moses was an hundred and twenty 



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years old when he died ; his eye was not dim, nor his 
natural force abated." 

Moses Developed Joshua's Mediumship. 

Verse 9: "And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full 
of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands 
upon him ; and the children of Israel hearkened unto 
him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses." 

Jehovah and Moses Face to Face. 

Verse 10 : "And there arose not a prophet since in 
Israel like unto Moses whom the Lord knew face to 
face." 

Moses Writes His Own Obituary. 

The Book of Deuteronomy is credited to Moses as 
author of the Pentateuch. If he wrote it, he wrote the 
story of his own death and burial. (See Verses 5, 6, 
and 7, of this chapter.) 

The Book of Joshua. 

The book of Joshua contains very little Spiritualism, 
though there is some spiritism recorded in it. 

Killings Wholesale. 

This book of Joshua is a continuous record of 
slaughter, robberies, and other cruelties that are not 
equaled in any other book of record, and all appears 
to be sanctioned, and some of them ordered by Spirit 
Jehovah through the mediumship of Joshua. One may 
shut his eyes to this fact and declare it is not true, but 
the record is there, and its testimony proves this state- 
ment true. We shall mention only a few of these 
atrocities here, as this is not the purpose of this writing, 



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though Jehovah, the author of this bloodshed and rob- 
bery, is a spirit and does this terrible work through the 
mediumship of Joshua, if Joshua is true to his me- 
diumship, which cannot be known today. 

Israel Crosses Jordan on Dry Land. 

Most wonderful manifestation of spirit power this, 
if it were really true. 

Joshua III., 13 : Spirit Jehovah says : "And it shall 
come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the 
priests that bear the ark of the Lord (the spirit cabinet), 
the Lord of all the earth shall rest in the waters of 
Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from 
the waters that come down from above ; and they shall 
stand upon a heap." 

This Says It Did Actually Occur. 

Verse 15 : "And as they that bare the ark were come 
unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the 
ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for Jordan 
overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest)". 

Verse 16 : "That the waters which came down from 
above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from 
the city of Adam, that is beside Zaretan ; and those that 
came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt 
sea. failed, and were cut off: and the people passed 
over right against Jericho." 

Verse 17 : "And the priests that bare the ark of the 
covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the 
midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on 
dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over 
Jordan." 

This implies the river bed was not even muddy. 

IV., 13 : "About forty thousand prepared for war 



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passed over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of 
Jericho. " 

Chap. IV., Verse 18 : "And it came to pass when the 
priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord 
were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles 
of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, 
that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, 
and flowed over all his banks as they did before." 

This beats all modern spirit phenomena out of sight. 

Greatest Spirit Phenomena, Joshua Stops the Sun 
and Moon. 

Joshua X., 12 : Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the 
day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the 
children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, 
"Sun, stand thou still upon Gideon; and thou moon, 
in the valley of Ajalon." 

Verse 13: "And the sun stood still, and the moon 
stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon 
their enemies." . . . "So the sun stood still in the midst 
of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole 
day." 

Lord Harkens to Voice of a Man. 

Verse 14 : "And there was no day like that before it 
or after it, that the Lord hearkened to the voice of a 
man : for the Lord fought for Israel." 

This spirit phenomena transcends any produced by 
Modern Spiritualism. 

Kills All People of This City. 

Verse 28 : Joshua annihilates the people of Makke- 
dah and utterly destroyed them all, killing "everything 
that breathed," of many nations and tribes, and confis- 
cating all their valuables, taking their homes and their 



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lands, this God of Israel continues in his strange ways. 
Chapter XXIV., Verse 13 : He says : "I have given 
you a land for which ye did not labor, and cities which 
ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards 
and olive yards which ye planted not do ye eat." Is 
this Infinite justice? 

Joshua a Medium — Spirits With Drawn Swords. 

Josh. V., 13 : "And it came to pass, when Joshua 
was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, 
and, behold, there stood a man (a spirit man) over 
against him with his sword drawn in his hand; and 
Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, art thou for 
us or for our adversaries ?" 

Many Bible spirits appear with swords and in a 
threatening attitude. Spirits never come in these mod- 
ern days with swords. 

A Man, a Captain of Jehovah's Spirit Army, With a 
Sword, Communicates. 

Verse 14: "And he said, Nay, but as captain of the 
host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell 
on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said unto 
him, What saith my lord unto his servant ?" 

Verse 15 : "And the captain of the Lord's host (this 
spirit) said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy 
foot ; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And 
Joshua did so." 

Spirit Soldier Communicates. 

This spirit was not Jehovah, the Lord, nor God. He 
was just a man, a military man, and he communicated 
with Joshua. This is a corroboration of Spiritualism. 
It is spirit communion. 



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Joshua a Materializing or Clairvoyant Medium. 

Either Joshua was a materializing or a clairvoyant 
medium, for he saw this spirit either materialized, or 
he saw him clairvoyantly. And the spirit talked to 
Joshua. This is more Spiritualism of the Bible. 

Joshua, by Jehovah's Order, Kills All That Breathed. 
Josh. X. : This chapter tells of the total annihilation 
of several tribes, their kings and their cities. 

A Terrible Spirit Communication. 

Verse 8 says : "And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear 
them not ; for I have delivered them into thine hand : 
there shall not a man stand before thee. ,, 

Verse 40 : "So Joshua smote all the country of the 
hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the 
springs, and all their kings ; he left none remaining, but 
utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God 
(Spirit Jehovah) of Israel commanded. " 

Is it not wrong to attribute such wholesale slaughter 
to "our father in heaven, the God of love?" 

Another of Spirit Jehovah's Frightful Messages. 

Chap. XL, Verse 6: "And the Lord said unto 
Joshua, Be not afraid because of them : for tomorrow 
about this time will I deliver them up all slain before 
Israel; thou shalt hough (ham-string) their horses and 
burn their chariots with fire." O pity the poor horses ! 

Joshua XL, Verse 8 : "And the Lord delivered them 
into the hand of Israel, who smote them," etc., . . . 
"and they smote them, until they left none of them 
remaining." 

Verse 4 reads as follows : "And they went out, they 
and all their hosts with them, much people, even as 
the sand that is upon the seashore, in multitude, with 
horses and chariots very many." 



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And Joshua killed them all, "destroyed them utterly." 
(See Verses 20 and 21.) 

Is this a manifestation of God's love? General Sher- 
man said, "War is hell !" Jehovah was the instigator 
of this war. Was God the author of this "Sherman 
hell"? or was it just plain Spirit Jehovah that ordered 
such cruelties? Or was it, really and truly, the "sub- 
jective mind," or the subliminal mind," or was it 
"auto-suggestion," or any of the other scientific ( ?) 
terms that have been applied to mediumship, that or- 
dered this wholesale killing of innocent human beings? 
Oh, let us lay it to whoever caused it, but let's not lay 
it to the Good God of this great universe. 

Verse 23 : Joshua took all their land and gave it to 
Israel, as the Lord decreed. 

Israelites Cast Lots. 

In his dictionary of the Bible Howard Malcom, D. D., 
of the University of London, Eng., defines the word as 
follows : "Lots : things cast or drawn in order to 
determine a point in debate. It is a solemn appeal to 
God, for an immediate interposal of his direct power 
for determining an affair; and on that account, ought 
to be used in nothing but what is important and cannot 
otherwise be peacefully determined; and then to be 
used with reverence and prayer." 

Why do not modern Christians, when in doubt, resort 
to casting lots to learn God's will, if they believe the 
Bible is all that is needed for man's faith and practice, 
as they teach ? 

Another Christian Authority. 

Dr. Wm. Smith in upholding the practice of casting 
lots says : 

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lot is one of great extent and high antiquity, recom- 
mending itself as a sort of appeal to the Almighty, 
secure from all influence of passion or bias, and is a 
sort of divination, employed even by the gods them- 
selves. Among the Jews, also, the use of lots, with a 
religious intuition, direct or indirect, prevailed exten- 
sively. The religious estimate of them may be gathered 
from Prov. XVI. , 33 : "The lot is cast into the lap, but 
the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord." 

Does modern Christianity teach this ? and do modern- 
day Christians believe it ? 

Practice Casting Lots to Get Advice from Spirit 
Jehovah. 

Esther III., 7, IX., 24 : Cast lots day after day for 
months. 

Casting lots is called Pur; or Purim is the name of 
an annual festival at which they were given to casting 
lots to ascertain the wishes of Jehovah or his advice. 

People of the Old Testament and of the New believed 
their God directed the lot, and they cast lots to decide 
many questions. See Numbers XXVI., 55, To divide the 
land; Joshua XVIII. , 10, 11, To divide the land taken 
in battle; Joshua XIX., 1, 10, 17, 24, 32, 40; XXL, 4, 
5, 10; Prov. XVIIL, 18, To stop contention; 1st Sam. 
XIV., 40, 41, To decide a question; Lev. XVI., 8, To 
decide on scapegoat; Joel III., 3, Not good; Nahum 
III., 10, For honorable men; Acts I., 20 to 26; Matt. 
XXVII., 35 ; Mark XV., 24, For Jesus' garments. 

What would intelligent Christians think and say if 
Spiritualists were so foolish as to resort to casting lots 
to learn the wishes of their spirit friends ? Christians, 
as a class, have outgrown this one Bible superstition, 
I am glad to be able to say. 



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Josh. XXL, 43 : The Lord gave Israel all the land he 
sware to give unto their forefathers. 

Verse 44: Jehovah delivered all their enemies into 
their hands, and all else he had promised them. 

Divide Plunder With Brethren. 
Chapter XXIL, 8 : They return with much riches to 
their tents, with very much cattle, silver and gold, brass, 
iron, and raiment, and divide the spoil with brethren. 

No Sympathy for Those They Robbed. 

But what of the men, women and children they had 
robbed and slaughtered? Not one word of regret for 
them and their sufferings appears in this "Blessed 
Gospel." (?) 

Jehovah Again Jealous. 

Chapter XXIV., Verse 19 : Jehovah is again jealous. 
"He will not forgive your sins." 

Verses 20 and 23 : He makes terrible threats. 

Verse 29 : Joshua dies ; and the 30th verse tells where 
they buried him. 

This book of Joshua is not a religious work ; it is a 
book of horrors and needs revising. 

The Book of Judges — Jehovah Defeated by Chariots 

of Iron. 

Chap. L, Verse 19 : "And the Lord was with Judah 
and He drave out the inhabitants of the mountain, but 
could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, be- 
cause they had chariots of iron." 

The chariots of iron were too much for Jehovah to 
overcome, therefore he could not have been Omnipo- 
tent and Almighty God. 

An Angel or Spirit Brought Them Out of Egypt. 
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from Gilgal to Bochim and said, / made you to go up 
out of Egypt and have brought you unto the land which 
I (the angel) sware unto your fathers; and I (the 
angel) said, I will never break my covenant with you." 

Can the "angel of God" be Almighty God himself? 

Verse 4 : "And it came to pass, the angel of the Lord 
spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that 
the people lifted up their voice and wept." 

Is this not spirit communion? 

Jehovah, Angry, Sells His Chosen People Into 
Slavery. 

Verse 13 : "And they forsook the Lord, and served 
Baal and Ashtaroth" — (other gods). 

Verse 14: "And the anger of the Lord was hot 
against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of 
spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the 
hands of their enemies round about, so that they could 
not any longer stand before their enemies." 

Verse 15: "Whithersoever they went out, the hand 
of the Lord was against them for evil." 

How unlike the God of Jesus, who taught "Love 
your enemies," do good to those who despitefully use 
you. 

God of Israel Repents Again. 

Judges II., Verse 18: "For it repented the Lord 
because of their groanings by reason of them that 
oppressed them and vexed them." 

Again He Is Angry. 

Verse 20: "And the anger of the Lord was hot 
against Israel ; and he said," etc. 

What a vacillating spirit Jehovah was ; repenting one 
moment, getting angry and "hot" the next minute, 



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promising and threatening as the mood seemed to take 
Him. 

Jehovah Sells Them Into Slavery Again. 
Judges III., Verse 8: Jehovah sold them to the 
heathen and they were slaves to them eight years. 

Jehovah Controls Another Medium. 

Verses 9, 10: "And the spirit of the Lord came 
upon him (Othniel) and He judged Israel, and went 
out to war," etc. 

Verse 12 : It will be noticed that every time the 
Israelites lost in battle, or any of Jehovah's prophecies 
failed, it is stated that the children of Israel did evil 
in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord's anger was 
kindled against them. 

This statement is made so often that it looks like an 
excuse made to account for the failure of some of 
Jehovah's prophecies. 

Was Jehovah the Author of This Assassination? 

The 15th to 29th verses of this chapter records one 
of the foulest of assassinations ever perpetrated, and 
the Lord "raised up" the man to do it this scripture 
says. 

Is This Old Testament a Record of Ancient Crimes? 

Is it a crime against innocence to teach the loving 
and confiding Sabbath school children that this Old 
Testament is the Word of God? Let anyone read the 
above fourteen verses of scripture before replying. 

Sold Into Slavery Again. 
Chap. IV., 2 : Jehovah sold the Israelites into slavery 
of Jabin, King of Canaan. 



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Deborah Gives Readings. 

Verse 4: "And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of 
Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time." 

Verse 5 : "And she dwelt under the palm tree of 
Deborah, between Ramah and Beth-el in Mount 
Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her 
for judgment." 

Probably for readings, as she was a prophetess or 
medium. 

Gideon and His Spirit Test with Fleece of Wool. 

Judges VI., 11: "And there came an angel of the 
Lord (not the Lord Jehovah, but an angel of the Lord) 
and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that per- 
tained unto Joash the Abi-ezrite ; and his son Gideon 
threshed wheat by the wine-press, to hide it from the 
Midianites." 

Is not this spirit return? 

Verse 12: "And the angel (or spirit) of the Lord 
appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is 
with thee, thou mighty man of valour." 

Verse 13 : "And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my Lord, 
if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? 
and where be all his miracles which our fathers told 
us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from 
Egypt ? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and deliv- 
ered us into the hands of the Midianites." 

Verse 14: "And the Lord looked upon him, and 
said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel 
from the hand of the Midianites ; have not I sent thee ?" 

Verse 15: "And he said unto him, Oh, my Lord, 
wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is 
poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's 
house." 

Verse 16: "And the Lord said unto him, Surely I 



86 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites 
as one man." 

Gideon Doubts the Spirit and Asks for a Test. 

Judges VI., Verse 17: "And he (Gideon) said unto 
him (unto the spirit), If now I have found grace in 
thy sight, then show me a sign (give me a test) that 
thou talkest with me." 

Thus it appears that Gideon doubted his own me- 
diumship and was not satisfied that the spirit had talked 
to him. 

Verse 18: Gideon asks the spirit to wait there until 
he comes back and brings the spirit a present. And 
the spirit promised to wait. 

Is this not wonderful? the spirit waiting there for 
Gideon to bring him a present ? 

Verse 19 : Gideon went in and made ready a kid and 
unleavened cakes made of flour, and put the broth in 
a pot and brought it to the angel. 

Verse 20: The angel or spirit told him to put this 
excellent dinner upon the rock and pour out the broth. 
"And he did so." 

Gideon a Fire Medium. 

Verse 21 : "The spirit put forth the staff that was in 
his hand and touched the flesh and unleavened cakes ; 
and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed 
them." Then the angel disappeared. 

After Witnessing This, Gideon Wanted More Tests. 

Verse 36: "And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt 
save Israel by mine hand as thou hast said," 

Verse 37 : "Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the 
floor ; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be 
dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that 
thou wilt save Israel by mine hand as thou hath said." 



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Verse 38 : "And it was so : for he rose up early on 
the morrow, and thrust the fleece together and wringed 
the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water." 

Verse 39: "And Gideon said unto God, Let not 
thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but 
this once ; let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with 
the fleece ; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and 
upon all the ground let there be dew." 

Verse 40 : "And God did so that night : for it was 
dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the 
ground." 

Is there anything as unreasonable as this in Spirit- 
ualism ? 

This spirit is called "God," "angel," "angel of the 
Lord," etc., in this scripture. 

Strange Method of Selecting Best Soldiers, and by 
Spirit Direction. 

Judges VII., 4, says : Gideon has too many soldiers 
and Jehovah tells him how to select the best ones. 

Verse 5 says : "So he brought down the people unto 
the water; and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one 
that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lap- 
peth, him shalt thou set by himself ; likewise every one 
that boweth down upon his knees to drink." 

Verse 6: "And the number of them that lapped, 
putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred 
men, but all the rest of the people bowed down upon 
their knees to drink water." 

A wonderful test of a good soldier. ( ?) 

The remainder of this chapter tells how Gideon took 
these three hundred soldiers, that stood the test of 
Israel's God, and defeated these Midianites and Amal- 
ekites, and they ran away. 



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Verse 12 says : "They were like grasshoppers for 
multitude." 

The 13th verse tells of a dream a man had that gave 
added strength to Gideon's test of the fleece of wool. 

Oh, if General Foch and our good General Perkins 
could have had such divine assistance could they not 
have conquered the Kaiser's millions and left no dead 
soldiers in France ? 

Evil Spirits Jehovah Sends. 
Judges IX., 23 : "Then God sent an evil spirit be- 
tween Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the 
men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech." 

Jehovah's Anger Hot Against Israel — He Sells Them 
Into Slavery Again. 

Chap. X., Verse 7, says : "And the anger of the Lord 
was hot against Israel and He sold them into the hands 
of the Philistines and into the hands of the children 
of Ammon." 

Vexed Israelites Eighteen Years in One Year. 

Verse 8 : "And that year they vexed and oppressed 
the children of Israel eighteen years," etc. 

Jephthah, a Medium, Sacrifices His Only Daughter 
as a Burnt Offering. 

Judges XI., 29 : "Then the spirit of the Lord (Jeho- 
vah) came upon Jephthah." 

That is, he was under spirit influence; so he was a 
medium. 

The 29th to 39th verses of this chapter tell the awful 
story of this medium, under spirit control, making a 
vow to sacrifice as a burnt offering whatsoever came 



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out of his house to meet him, on his return from the 
battle if he won it. His only child was the one who 
came out to greet him, and he sacrificed her as a "burnt 
offering unto the Lord." Will some ignorant Chris- 
tians continue to accuse modern mediums of doing 
wrong ? 

Dr. Wm. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, a Christian 
authority, says : "The daughter of Jephthah was really 
offered up to God in sacrifice — slain by the hand of her 
father and then burnt — it is a horrible conclusion, but 
one which it seems impossible to avoid." 

Samson's Miraculous Conception — More Spirit 
Communion. 

Judges XIII., 2, 3 : "And the angel of the Lord ap- 
peared unto the woman (who afterwards became Sam- 
son's mother) and said to her, Behold now, thou art 
barren, and bearest not; but thou shalt conceive and 
bear a son." 

Verse 9 : This angel or spirit came again, when the 
woman was in the field. 

Verse 10 : The woman went and told Manoah, her 
husband (who afterwards became Samson's father). 

Verse 1 1 : Manoah went and saw the spirit, and 
talked with him, also. 

Verse 15 : Manoah asked this angel of the Lord to 
dine with him. 

Verse 16: The angel of the Lord declined the in- 
vitation. 

Verse 17 : Manoah asked this angel his name. 

Verse 18: The angel said it was a secret. 

Verse 19: "And the angel did wondrously, while 
Manoah made a meat offering to the Lord." 



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Manoah Another Fire Medium. 

Verse 20: The angel of the Lord went up in the 
flame of the altar. "And Manoah and his wife looked 
on it, and fell on their faces to the ground." 

Verse 21 : "But the angel of the Lord did no more 
appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew 
that he was an angel of the Lord (a spirit)." 

This spirit communicated with both Manoah and his 
wife, if the story is true. 

Verse 22: "And Manoah said unto his wife, We 
shall surely die, because we have seen God." (They 
often mistook spirits for God.) 

Verse 23 : Mrs. Manoah assured her husband that 
the Lord would not kill them, as he had received their 
burnt offering. 

Samson's Birth. 
Verse 24 : "And the woman bare a son, and called 
his name Samson, and the child grew, and the Lord 
blessed him," 

Samson Is a Medium. 

Verse 25 : "And the spirit of the Lord began to 
move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah 
and Eshtaol." 

In this chapter, this spirit is called the angel of the 
Lord ten times, "Angel of God" twice, a "Man of God" 
twice, "The angel" once, "God" once, and "a man," 
and "the man," three times each. Dear Christian 
friends, is not spirit communion true? There are no 
miraculous conceptions in Modern Spiritualism, and 
the Bible mediums and Bible spirits have the modern 
mediums and modern spirits beaten badly if this story 
is true. What would happen if it should prove to be 
untrue ? 



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The foregoing statement is that Samson was brought 
into the world by the edict of an angel or spirit of the 
Lord, and so he was miraculously conceived. It also 
shows that he was a medium, as "the spirit of the Lord 
began to move him at times." 

Spirit Selects a Wife for Samson. 

Judges XIV., Verses 2 and 3, tells of Samson se- 
lecting a Philistine woman for a wife, and that his 
parents thought he should select one from among his 
own people. 

Verse 4: But his father and his mother knew not 
that it (the selection of his wife) was of the Lord. 

Samson Under Spirit Control. 

Verse 5 : "A lion roared against him." 

Verse 6 : "And the spirit of the Lord came mightily 
upon him and he rent him as he would have rent a 
kid, and he had nothing in his hand." 

Mediums are sometimes very strong when under 
control, but Samson beats them all. 

Verse 19 : Samson was controlled again by the spirit 
and "slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and 
gave change of garments unto them which expounded 
the riddle." 

That is to say, that Samson under control of the 
spirit of the Lord slew thirty men to get their clothing 
to pay the bet he had lost. This may be called the 
Spiritism of Christians who believe it, but it is not the 
kind of Spiritualism that Modern Spiritualists teach or 
advocate. 

Verse 20: "But Samson's wife was given to his 
companion whom he had used as his friend." 



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They "gave" and "took" wives in those days. A 
woman's wishes were not always considered. 

Judges XV., 1, 2, 3 : Samson's father-in-law having 
given Samson's wife to another man, to make it right, 
he gives Samson a younger daughter and a better 
looking one. 

Samson's Miracle, with Foxes. 

Verse 4: "Samson went and caught three hundred 
foxes, and took fire-brands, and turned tail to tail, and 
put a fire-brand in the midst of two tails." 

Verse 5 : "And when he had set the fire-brands on 
fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Phil- 
istines, and burnt up both the shocks and also the stand- 
ing corn with the vineyards and olives." 

Mediums did wonders in those days ! Kind reader, 
can you accept this story as God's infallible truth ? 

Another Phase of Samson's Mediumship. 

Verse 14 : "And the spirit of the Lord came mightily 
upon him (he was controlled by the spirit) and the 
cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was 
burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his 
hands." 

Modern mediums have been released by spirits after 
being bound securely, and when steel handcuffs were 
locked on them, so this phase of mediumship is not 
new to Spiritualists. 

Thousand Slain With Jawbone. 

Verse 15 : "And he found a new jawbone of an ass, 
and put forth his hand and took it, and slew a thousand 
men therewith." 

This wonderful miracle was performed by Samson 
while the spirit of the Lord was controlling him. 



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Verse 16 : "And Samson said, With the jawbone of 
an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have 
I slain a thousand men." 

Verse 18 : "And he was sore athirst, and called on 
the Lord and said, Thou hast given this great deliver- 
ance into the hand of thy servant ; and now shall I die 
for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised ?" 

Spirit Power Gets Water from a Dry Bone. 

Verse 19 : "But God clave an hollow place that was 
in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when 
he had drunk his spirit came again and he revived," etc. 

Can any honest and intelligent Christian truthfully 
say he believes this story? 

Spiritualists do not believe in miracles, and they do 
not accept as infallible truth these weird and impossible 
tales about Samson. 

Samson's Morals. 

Though Samson was miraculously conceived by the 
edict of "the angel of the Lord," and was "moved by 
the spirit of the Lord," and often, "the spirit of the 
Lord came upon him," controlling him. These high 
spiritual associations did not keep him walking in the 
pathway of moral rectitude. 

This Christian authority, Dr. William Smith's Dic- 
tionary of the Bible, says of Delilah: "Her connection 
with Samson forms the third and last of those amatory 
adventures which in his history are so inextricably 
blended with the craft and prowess of a judge in 
Israel." 

This, though possibly not intended, justly convicts 
Samson. 



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Another Dark Seance. 
Judges XVI., 3 : Samson carries off the gates of the 
city, gate-posts, bar and all, without being captured 
by men who "laid in wait for him all night in the city." 

Lies Three Times. 

Verse 17 : He tells Delilah, his paramour, after hav- 
ing lied to her three times, that if his head be shaven 
his strength will go from him. 

Head Shaved While Asleep. 

Verse 19 : "And she made him sleep upon his knees ; 
and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave 
off the seven locks of his head ; and she began to afflict 
him, and his strength went from him." 

Could he sleep while his head was being shaved ? 

Spirit Guide Leaves Samson. 

The last of the 20th verse says : "And he wist not 
that the Lord was departed from him." 

Did the spirit of the Lord leave him because he lost 
his hair; and did he refuse to strengthen him to do 
the wonders he had accomplished through the power 
of the spirit, because his head was shaved? How 
ridiculous ! 

According to the remainder of this chapter, the 
Philistines put his eyes out, imprisoned him and made 
a feast. Samson's hair began to grow, and he prayed 
the Lord to strengthen him, and he put his arms around 
the two pillars upon which the building rested (he must 
have had a long reach), and "bowed himself with all 
his might, and the house fell," killing three thousand, 
besides killing Samson himself. This closed Samson's 
last demonstration of spirit power and spirit phenomena. 



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Samson was not a Spiritualist and did not teach 
Spiritualism, nor live the life of a true Spiritualist. 
If the report is true, he was a spirit-medium, con- 
trolled by spirits. He was a Spiritist. 

Not a single act of this miraculously conceived spirit- 
medium, as recorded in the scriptures, can be said to be 
a spiritual act. There is nothing whatever in his record 
that is spiritual. This story has nothing that is good 
for our faith, or needed for our practice. It teaches 
spirit communion was an ancient fact, that is all. 

The remainder of the book of Judges contains 
reading matter that would not add moral excellence to 
any work, and would not be allowed circulation through 
the United States mails if published in any other book 
than the Bible. When, oh, when, will Christians awaken 
to the fact that the scriptures are in great need of a 
thorough revision, and that their good cause suffers 
greatly because of it? 

The Book of Samuel — Samuel's Miraculous 
Conception. 

1st Sam. I., Verse 5 : "But unto Hannah he gave a 
worthy portion ; for he loved Hannah, but the Lord 
caused her to be barren/' 

Verse 7 : "Because of it Hannah wept and did not 
eat." 

Verse 1 1 : "And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord 
of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of 
thine handmaid and remember me, and not forget thine 
handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man 
child, then will I give him unto the Lord all the days 
of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his 
head." 

Verse 12: She continues praying. 



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Verse 17: "Then Eli (the high priest) answered 
and said, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant thee 
thy petition that thou hast asked of him." 

Verse 18 : Hannah is more cheerful after the good 
words of the priest. 

Verse 19 : The Lord remembered her. 

Verse 20: Hannah bares a son and calls his name 
Samuel. (See also 26th and 27th verses.) 

Was this a miraculous conception? Would such a 
case, occurring today, be considered as such ? 

Samuel a Medium. 

Samuel having been miraculously conceived, and 
the spirits being with him and with his mother, he had 
an excellent start in his development as a medium and 
he became an excellent one, as the sequel will plainly 
show. 

Ministered Before the Lord When a Child. 

1st Sam. II., 18: "But Samuel ministered before 
the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod." 

Verse 26 : "And the child Samuel grew on, and was 
in favor both with the Lord and also with men." 

Spirit Messages Precious — No Open Vision. 

1st Sam. III., Verse 1 : "And the child Samuel min- 
istered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the 
Lord was precious in those days ; there was no open 
vision." 

The Spirit of the Lord — Jehovah Talks to Samuel. 

Verse 3 : "And Samuel was laid down to sleep." 
Verse 4: "That the Lord (a spirit voice) called 
Samuel ; and he answered, Here am I." 

Verse 5 : "And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am 



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I ; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not, lie 
down again. And he went and lay down." 

Verse 6 : "And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. 
And Samuel arose, and went to Eli, and said, Here 
am I ; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called 
not, my son ; lie down again." 

Samuel's Mediumship Not Yet Developed. 

Verse 7 : "Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, 
neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto 
him." 

Verse 8: "And the Lord called Samuel again, the 
third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, 
Here am I ; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived 
that the Lord had called the child." 

Verse 9 : "Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie 
down; and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt 
say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel 
went and lay down in his place." 

A Dark Seance. 

Verse 10: "And the Lord (or spirit) came, and 
stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. 
Then Samuel answered, Speak ; for thy servant 
heareth." 

Verse 11 : "And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, 
I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of 
everyone that heareth it shall tingle." 

Verse 12 : "In that day I will perform against Eli 
all things which I have spoken concerning his house : 
when I begin, I will also make an end." 

Verse 13 : "For I have told him that I will judge 
his house forever for the iniquity w T hich he knoweth; 
because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained 
them not." 



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Verse 14 : Continues this spirit communication. The 
above was given in the night, and was another dark 
seance. 

Verse 15: "And Samuel lay until morning and 
opened the doors of the house of the Lord ; and Samuel 
feared to shew Eli the vision." 

Verse 16 : "Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Sam- 
uel, my son. And he answered, Here am I." 

Verse 17: "And he said, What is the thing that the 
Lord hath said unto thee ? I pray thee hide it not from 
me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide 
any thing from me of all the things that He said unto 
thee." 

Verse 18: "And Samuel told him every whit, and 
hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord; 
let him do what seemeth good." 

Samuel Established as a Medium of Israel. 

Verse 19: "And Samuel grew, and the Lord was 
with him, and did let none of his words fall to the 
ground." 

Verse 20 : "And all Israel, from Dan even to Beer- 
sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet 
of the Lord." 

For Looking Into Cabinet Jehovah Kills 50,070 Men. 

1st Sam. VI., 19: "And he (the Lord) smote the men 
of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark 
of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand 
and three score and ten men (50,070). And the people 
lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the 
people with a great slaughter. 

What a strange thing for a good God to do ! It was 
natural for a few who were present to desire to look in 



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the spirit cabinet, to know if everything was returned 
in good order. And what harm could it do to look into 
it, anyway ? Probably not one in five hundred of these 
fifty thousand men looked into the ark. Why should 
they all suffer death when so few of them were guilty ? 

Israelites Worship Baalim, Ashtaroth and Other 
Tribal Gods. 

VII., 3 : "And Samuel spake unto all the house of 
Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all 
your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ash- 
taroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto 
the Lord, and serve him only ; and he will deliver you 
out of the hand of the Philistines. " 

Verse 4: "Then the children of Israel did put away 
Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the Lord only.'' 

These were tribal gods of which there were many, 
and were evidently like Jehovah of the Israelites, sim- 
ply communicating spirits." 

Spirit Used Thunder to Win Battle. 

Verse 10: When the Philistines were fighting the 
Israelites at Mizpeh, "The Lord (or spirit Jehovah) 
thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the 
Philistines and discomfited them ; and they were smitten 
before Israel." 

Verses 11, 12: The Israelites drove them back be- 
cause the Lord helped them. 

From Verse 8 to the end of this chapter, the Lord 
gives Samuel a plan to have a king rule over Israel. 

VII., 21 : "And Samuel rehearsed the words of the 
people in the ears of the Lord." 

Did not the Lord know what the people were saying 
until Samuel told him? 



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Samuel a Developing Medium. 

1st Sam. IX., Verses 1 to 4: A Benjamite named 
Kish, "A mighty man of power had lost his asses, and 
he sent his son Saul and a servant in search of them." 

Verse 5 : "And when they came to the land of Zuph, 
Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and 
let us return ; lest my father cease caring for the asses, 
and take thought for us." 

Mediums of Bible Require Pay. 

Verse 6 : "And he said unto him, Behold now, there 
is in this city a man of God and he is an honourable 
man ; all that he saith cometh surely to pass : now let 
us go thither ; peradventure he can shew us our way 
that we should go." 

Verse 7 : "Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, 
if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread 
is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to 
bring to the man of God; what have we?" 

This shows pay was expected. 

Samuel Accepts Pay for Mediumship — Saul and the 
Lost Asses. 

Verse 8: "And the servant answered Saul again, 
and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part 
of a shekel of silver, that will I give to the man of 
God to tell us our way." 

A shekel of silver is less than fifteen cents of Ameri- 
can money. So the pay the medium Samuel received 
for his services in delivering this message from God, 
finding the lost asses, and giving Saul this spiritual 
reading, netted him less than fifteen cents. 

Was finding these lost asses fortune telling? If it 
were to occur in the state of Michigan today, the great 



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man of God, Samuel, would be liable to arrest, fine 
and imprisonment for taking pay for fortune telling. 
Let good Christians read and reflect. 

Verse 10: "Then said Saul to his servant, Well 
said ; come let us go. So they went unto the city where 
the man of God was." 

Verse 1 1 : "And as they went up the hill to the city, 
they found young maidens going out to draw water, 
and said unto them, Is the seer here? ,, 

Verse 12: "And they answered them, and said, He 
is," etc. 

Spirit Tells Samuel Saul Is Coming. 

Verse 14: Samuel came out to meet them. His 
spirit guides had told him they were coming. 

Verse IS: "Now the Lord (the spirit) had told 
Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying:" 

Verse 16 : "Tomorrow about this time I will send 
thee a man out of the land of Benjamin ; and thou shalt 
anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that 
he may save my people out of the hand of the Philis- 
tines." 

How like communications of today this is. 

Samuel a Medium. 
Verse 17 : "And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord 
(the spirit) said unto him, Behold the man whom I 
spake to thee of ! this same shall reign over my people." 

Samuel Tells Saul the Asses Are Found. 

Verse 20 : "And as for thine asses, that were lost 
three days ago, set not thy mind on them ; for they are 
found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is 
it not on thee, and on all thy father's house." 

Verse 27 : They sent the servant on ahead of them 
so Samuel could give Saul a private spirit message. 



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Samuel's Spirit Message to Saul. 

1st Sam. X., 1 : "Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and 
poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said, Is 
it not because the Lord hath anointed thee to be cap- 
tain over his inheritance?" 

Foretelling the Future— Is This Fortune Telling? 

Verse 2 : "When thou art departed from me today, 
then thou shalt find two men by Rachel's sepulchre, in 
the border of Benjamin Zelzah; and they will say unto 
thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found ; 
and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and 
sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my 
son?" 

Verse 3 : "Then shalt thou go on forward from 
thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabar, and 
there shall meet three men going up to God to Bethel, 
one carrying three kids, and another carrying three 
loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine :" 

Verse 4: "And they will salute thee, and give thee 
two loaves of bread, which thou shalt receive in thy 
hands." 

Music Used in Seances. 

Verse 5: "After that thou shalt come to the hill 
of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines, and 
it shall come to pass, that thou shalt meet a company 
of prophets coming down from the high place, with 
a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before 
them ; and they shall prophesy." 

Mediumship Turns Saul Into Another Man. 
Verse 6: "And the Spirit of the Lord will come 
upon thee (he will be controlled) and thou shalt 
prophesy (foretell the future) with them, and shalt 
be turned into another man." 



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That is, he will become a medium. 

Verse 7: "And let it be, when these signs (spirit 
tests) are come upon thee, that thou do as occasion 
serve thee ; for God is with thee." 

Verse 9 : "And it was so, that when he had turned 
his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another 
heart, and all those signs came to pass that day." 

That is : all these tests proved true. 

Verse 10: "And when they came thither to the hill, 
behold, a company of prophets met him ; and the Spirit 
of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them." 

1st Sam. X. : After reading this whole story of Saul's 
experience with Samuel, anyone who understands 
Spiritualism must be convinced that both Samuel and 
Saul were mediums. This scripture cannot be properly 
interpreted to mean anything else. Modern experiences, 
such as this ancient one herein recorded, are what made 
the millions of Spiritualists who are citizens of our 
country, and is making millions more today the world 
over. 

Saul Among the Prophets. 

Verse 11 : "And it came to pass, when all that knew 
him before-time saw that, behold, he prophesied among 
the prophets, then the people said one to another, What 
is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul 
also among the prophets?" 

Verse 15: "And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray 
thee, what Samuel said unto you." 

Verse 16 : "And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us 
plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of 
the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake he told him not." 

Verse 21 : The Israelites gathered to elect a king. 
"And when they sought him (Saul) he could not be 
found." 



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It will be remembered that the spirit of the Lord 
(Jehovah) had, through the mediumship of Samuel, 
selected Saul to be King of Israel ; and he was wanted 
at this meeting so as to be proclaimed King of Israel, 
when he disappeared. 

Saul Hides and the Spirit Finds Him. 

Verse 22: "They enquired of the Lord (the spirit) 
if the man who was to be made king would be there 
for the ceremony, and the spirit said, Behold, he hath 
hid himself among the stuff." 

Saul was brought in. He was head and shoulders 
taller than any of them. 

Verses 24 to 27 : He was proclaimed King of Israel. 

Saul Under Control and Angry. 

XL, 6: "And the spirit of God came upon Saul 
when he heard these tidings, and his anger was kindled 
greatly." 

Saul's Brutality. 

Verse 7 : "And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed 
them to pieces, and sent them throughout the coasts of 
Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whosoever 
cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall 
it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of. the Lord 
(the spirits) fell on the people, and they came out with 
one consent." 

Spiritism. 

This is Spiritism, not Spiritualism. There is nothing 
in Modern Spiritualism like it, thank heaven! 

Samuel Destroys Enemies with Thunder. 
XII., 18: "So Samuel called unto the Lord; and 
the Lord sent thunder and rain that day : and all the 
people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel." 



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No modern medium was ever known to control the 
weather and use thunder storms to smite his enemies. 

Saul Casts Lots to Find the Guilty One. 

Sam. XIV., Verses 36 to 45 : Saul calls on God to 
find the guilty one by casting lots. The lot falls on 
Saul's son Jonathan, and Saul would put him to death, 
but Israel refused to let him do it. 

Jehovah Tells Saul to Slay Men, Women, Infants 
and Sucklings. 

Chap. XV., Verses 1 to 4 : Jehovah tells Saul through 
the medium Samuel to "go and smite Amalek and ut- 
terly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; 
but slay both man and woman, infant and sucklings," 
etc. 

No modern medium ever received such a terrible 
spirit message as this one, and their messages come 
from spirits of men. 

Saul Disobeys Jehovah. 

Verse 8 says : "And he took Agag the King of the 
Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people 
with the edge of the sword," 

Verse 9 : "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and 
the best of the sheep, and of oxen, and of the fatlings, 
and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not 
utterly destroy them ; but everything that was vile and 
refuse, that they destroyed utterly." 

The Lord Repents. 

Verse 10: "Then came the word of the Lord unto 
Samuel saying," 

Verse 11 : "It repcnteth me that I have set up Saul 
to be King; for he is turned back from following Me, 



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and hath not performed My commandments. And it 
grieved Samuel ; and he cried unto the Lord all night." 
If Jehovah was omniscient, should he not have known 
when he made Saul King, just what Saul would do? 
And does Almighty God repent? 

Samuel and Saul Quarrel. 

1st Sam. XV., Verse 19 : Samuel asks Saul, "Where- 
fore, then, didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord ?" 

Verse 20 : Saul says : "I have obeyed the voice of 
the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent 
me, and have brought Agag the King of Amalek, and 
have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. ,, 

Verse 21 : Saul says : "The people took of the spoil, 
sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should 
have been destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy 
God in Gilgal." 

They brought them home to use as burnt offerings in 
their sacrifices to Jehovah. Was there anything wrong 
in this ? 

Verse 23 : Samuel says : "For rebellion is as the sin 
of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol- 
atry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord 
(the spirit message from Jehovah), he hath also re- 
jected thee from being king." 

In the above, as elsewhere in scripture, "the word of 
the Lord" means "the spirit's message. ,, 

Saul Pleads Guilty and Asks Pardon. 

1st Sam. XV., Verse 24 : "And Saul said unto Sam- 
uel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the com- 
mandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I 
feared the people, and obeyed their voice." 

Verse 25 : "Now, therefore, I pray thee, pardon 



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my sin (which was the greater sin, to murder the king 
or save him alive?), and turn again with me, that I 
may worship the Lord." 

Samuel Refused to Pardon Saul. 

Verse 26: "And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not 
return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of 
the Lord (the spirit message), and the Lord hath 
rejected thee from being king over Israel. ,, 

Saul Tears Samuel's Mantle. 

Verse 27 : "And as Samuel turned about to go away, 
he (Saul) laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and 
it rent." 

In Chapter XXVIIL, Verses 12, 13 and 14, as may 
be seen, the dead man Samuel returns as a spirit, wear- 
ing this cloak, as a test or proof of his identity. 

1st Sam. XV., 28 : "And Samuel said unto him, The 
Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this 
day, and hath given it to a neighbor of thine, that is 
better than thou." 

Jehovah Will Not Lie Nor Repent. 

Verse 29 : "And also the strength of Israel will not 
lie, nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should 
repent/' 

Jehovah Does Repent. 

Verse 35 : "And Samuel came no more to see Saul 
until the day of his death ; nevertheless Samuel mourned 
for Saul. And the Lord repented that he had made 
Saul King over Israel." 

Twice in this chapter it is stated that Jehovah re- 
pented. Once it says He will not lie nor repent. Can 
these contradictions be infallibly true? 



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XVI., 13 : Samuel anointed David, the young shep- 
herd whom the Lord had selected to be king in the 
place of Saul. "And the spirit of the Lord came upon 
David from that day forward. " 

That is, he became a medium, controlled by spirits. 

An Evil Spirit from the Lord Troubles Saul. 

Verse 14 : A spirit cannot trouble one who is not a 
medium. So Saul was a medium. 

"But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and 
an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him." 

Verse 15: "And Saul's servants said unto him, Be- 
hold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. ,, 

Evil Spirits Driven Out by Music. 

Verse 16: "Let our Lord now command thy ser- 
vants, which are before thee to seek out a man who is 
a cunning player on an harp : and it shall come to pass, 
when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he 
shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. ,, 

David Appears — Takes Part. 

Verses 17 to 20: They sent for David. 

Verse 21 : "And David came to Saul and stood be- 
fore him : and he loved him greatly ; and he became 
his armour-bearer." 

Saul Obsessed — Cured by Music. 

Verse 23 : "And it came to pass when the evil spirit 
from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and 
played with his hand : so Saul was refreshed, and was 
well, and the evil spirit departed from him." 

The reader may notice that this spirit that controlled 
Saul is repeatedly called "The evil spirit from God." 



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Did the Great God of this universe send an evil spirit 
to trouble Saul? Can anyone believe a God of all love 
and compassion, all wisdom and power, would send an 
evil spirit to Saul or any other mortal to torture him 
because he failed to murder King Agag? Oh, the 
inconsistency of such beliefs ! Is obsession by evil spir- 
its, from God, or ordered by Him ? And if such were 
the case, could the playing of a harp drive back the evil 
spirit whom God had sent? 

Saul Again Obsessed and Prophesies. 

1 Sam. XVIII., 10 : "And it came to pass on the mor- 
row that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and 
he prophesied in the midst of the house : and David 
played with his hand as at other times ; and there was 
a javelin in Saul's hand." 

Verse 11 : "And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, 
I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David 
avoided out of his presence twice." 

Lord With David, Not With Saul. 

Verse 12 : "And Saul was afraid of David, because 
the Lord was with him, and was departed from Saul." 

Evil Spirit from the Lord. 

XIX., 9: "And the evil spirit from the Lord was 
upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in 
his hand : and David played with his hand." 

Verse 10: "And Saul sought to smite David even 
to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out 
of Saul's presence : and he smote the javelin into the 
wall ; and David fled, and escaped that night." 

Is it not strange that God should send an evil spirit, 
who on these various occasions controlled Saul, and 
tried to kill David, of whom the Lord said: "I have 



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found David, the son of Jesse, a man after mine own 
heart, which shall fulfil all my will." (See Acts XIIL, 
22.) 

1st Sam. XIII., 14: David a man after God's own 
heart. 

Chap. XIX., Verse 18 : "So David fled and came to 
Samuel at Ramah." 

Saul Sends Men to Take David. 

Verse 20 : "And Saul sent messengers to take David : 
and when they saw the company of prophets prophesy- 
ing, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the 
spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they 
also prophesied. ,, 

Saul Sent Messengers Three Times and They Were 
All Controlled. 

Samuel, Saul and David Mediums. 

Verse 21 : "And when it was told Saul, he sent 
other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. And 
Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they 
prophesied also." 

Saul Himself Goes to Kill David and He Is 
Controlled. 

Verses 22 and 23 : "And he went thither to Naioth 
in Ramah : and the spirit of God was upon him also, 
and he went on, and prophesied." 

Saul Prophesied Naked. 

Verse 24 : "And he stripped off his clothes, also, and 
prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay 
down naked all that day, and all that night. Where- 
fore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets ?" 

This looks as though the spirit of God, who con- 
trolled Saul's three companies of messengers whom 



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he sent to kill David, and who controlled Saul when 
he went to kill him, had thus prevented his murder. 
Spirits nowadays do strange things to protect their 
mediums, but never strip their clothes off and make 
them dance naked before people as Saul's spirit control 
did. And they never commit murder. 

Saul a Medium for Evil Spirits — He, David and 
Jonathan All Falsify. 

1st Sam. XVIII. , 22: Saul tells his servants to tell 
David that he "hath delight in him," when the truth 
was, he wanted to kill him and was then planning to 
do it. 

Chap. XX., 6 : David tells Jonathan to lie about him 
to his father. 

In the 27th, 28th, 29th verses, Jonathan lies to his 
father Saul. 

Chap. XXL, 1, 2 : David lies to Ahimelech, the priest. 

Evil Spirits Control Saul — Like Seems to Attract 

Like. 

1st Sam. XVI., Verses 14 and 23 ; XVIII., 10: Evil 
spirit prophesied through Saul. XIX., 9. 

David Feigns Insanity. 
XXL, 13 to 15. 
Chap. XXIII., 2 : David enquired of the Lord and 
the Lord answered him. 

Verse 4 : He enquired again. 

Verses 9 to 12 : David again uses the ephod to en- 
quire of the Lord, and the Lord answered him. 

Ephod Described. 

An ephod is a breastplate studded with precious 
stones. Urim means light and thummim, perfection. 



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The high priest asks the Lord (the spirit) questions, 
and receives answers by the ephod. (See 1st Sam. 
XXIII., Verses 9 to 12; XXX., 7, 8.) The high 
priest is the medium for the use of the ephod, or breast- 
plate, and it is he in this case who gets the message from 
the spirit. 

Use of the Ephod. 

David, Samuel, Saul, and many other "men of God," 
"prophets," or spirit mediums of the Bible used the 
ephod in the same manner, and for the same purpose 
that some mediums now use the crystal, the mirror, or 
the ouija board. It was used to inquire of the Lord, 
or other spirits. 

The theological opponents of Spiritualism often de- 
ride the idea that spirits would stoop so low as to rap 
on a table, or tilt it in answer to a question. Would it 
not be as legitimate a transaction as for "Almighty 
God" to manifest to such characters as poor old David, 
or Saul, through the instrumentality of an ephod or 
through a "trumpet" in "thick darkness"? (See "Trum- 
pet Seances" of the Bible in index to this book, for 
references to articles on the subject.) 

XXVII., 8, 9 and 11, say : David smote three nations, 
"and left neither man nor woman alive." 

Is this sacred and holy writ ? One must have a poor 
opinion of the Deity to believe he ordered such 
slaughterings. 

The Woman of Endor a Medium — Samuel Dead. 
Sam. XXVIII. , Verse 3 : "Now Samuel was dead, 
and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in 
Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away 
those that had familiar spirits and wizards, out of the 
land." 



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Verse 6: "And when Saul enquired of the Lord, 
the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by 
urim, nor by prophets. " 

Verse 7: "Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek 
me a woman that hath a familiar spirit (a spirit me- 
dium), that I may go to her and enquire of her. And 
the servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that 
hath a familiar spirit at En-dor. ,, 

Verse 8: "And Saul disguised himself, and put on 
other raiment, and went, and two men with him, and 
they came to the woman by night : and he said, I pray 
thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring 
me him up whom I shall name unto thee." 

Divination. 

Some Bible mediums divined by using the ephod, 
some by the divining rod, and others by the divining 
cup, while the more advanced mediums and most accu- 
rate ones like Peter, Paul, Jesus, and the woman of 
Endor, divined by the familiar spirit. 

Verse 9 : "And the woman said unto him, Behold, 
thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut 
off those that hath familiar spirits, and the wizards 
out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare 
for my life, to cause me to die?" 

Verse 10: "And Saul sware to her by the Lord, 
saying : As the Lord liveth, there shall no punishment 
happen to thee for this thing." 

Verse 1 1 : "Then said the woman, Whom shall I 
bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel." 

Verse 12 : "And when the woman saw Samuel, she 
cried with a loud voice ; and the woman spake to Saul, 
saying: Why hast thou deceived me, for thou art 
Saul." 



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Verse 13 : "And the King said unto her, Be not 
afraid: for what sawest thou? and the woman said 
unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth." 

Spirits are called gods throughout the Old Testament. 

1st Sam. XVIII. , Verse 14: "And he said unto her, 
What form is he of ? And she said, An old man cometh 
up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul per- 
ceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face 
to the ground, and bowed himself." 

Verse 15 : "And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou 
disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, 
I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war 
against me, and God (his spirit guide) has departed 
from me, and anszvereth me no more, neither by 
prophets nor by dreams; therefore I have called thee 
that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do." 

Saul believed in other phases of mediumship than 
his own, as this scripture shows. 

Verse 16 : "Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost 
thou ask of me, seeing the Lord (his spirit guide) is 
departed from thee, and is become thine enemy ?" 

Verse 18 : "Because thou obeyedst not the voice of 
the Lord, nor executedst His fierce wrath upon Amelek, 
therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee." 

That is : because Saul did not kill all that breathed 
as Jehovah ordered, but saved King Agag alive, whom 
Samuel hewed in pieces, was the reason Jehovah had 
departed from him. 

A Spirit Prophecy Fulfilled. 

Verse 19: "Moreover, the Lord will also deliver 
Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines: and 
tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me; the 



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Lord also shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand 
of the Philistines." 

No one can accuse this medium of Endor of fraud, 
because everything she gave Saul was true, and the 
prophecy of Samuel, the spirit, came to pass. 

Verse 20: "Saul fell on the earth and was sore 
afraid." 

Verse 21 : The woman told him she had put her life 
in her hands by hearkening unto him. 

Verse 22 : She begged him to let her get him some- 
thing to eat. 

Verse 23 : He refused, but the servants and the 
woman compelled him. 

Verse 25 : "And they did eat, and they went away 
that night." 

We have zvritten out the full story because it is just 
what Spiritualists teach and practice. It will be seen 
that the woman is not called a witch at all. Theo- 
logians misrepresent her when they call her a witch. 
As well call Samuel, David, Jesus, or any other Bible 
medium, a wizard, or a witch. 

The third verse says Samuel was dead. 

Verse 12 says the woman saw Samuel. 

1st Sam. XXVIII., Verse 14, says Saul perceived it 
was Samuel, and the 15th verse says Samuel said to 
Saul, etc. ; 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th verses declare that 
Samuel talked to Saul, and if it was not Samuel this 
Bible story is a prevarication, and if it is not true, then 
the reliability of the entire book must be questioned. 

Verse 19 says : "Moreover, the Lord will also deliver 
Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines ; and 
tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me." 

Where will they be with him as Samuel states? 



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Why, in "Summerland," of course, for Samuel being a 
"Man of God" must be in a good place, and Saul, his 
sons and the rest of them are going to the same place. 
Spirit Samuel says they will be with him. 

Chapter XXXI. , Verse 6, says : "So Saul died, and 
his three sons, and his armour-bearer, and all his men 
that same day together." 

If this story is true, spirit communion was as true in 
the year 1026 B. C. as it is today. And one who does 
not believe this story is an infidel. The author of this 
book believes the story is true, because he has seen 
much of such phenomena, and from personal experi- 
ence knows it is possible. 

The story of Saul and the woman of Endor plainly 
teaches that spirits of dead people communicate with 
mortals through human mediums. This scripture says 
that Samuel was dead and that he came and talked 
to Saul through the mediumship of the woman of 
Endor. If this is not true, the Bible does not tell the 
truth ; if, as the Bible says, the dead Samuel did return 
and talk to Saul, then Spiritualism and the return and 
communication of the spirits of the dead is an actual 
fact. In this case by itself, the fact rests upon the 
authenticity of the scriptures. In ten thousand present- 
day instances it rests on testimony of the living wit- 
nesses whom we may know, and who are honest, up- 
right and truthful men and women. Or we may inves- 
tigate the subject ourselves. 

Which is the better evidence, the testimony of those 
who are living today and who have had personal expe- 
rience, or the writings of those ancient men whom we 
never knew? In this case, as in many more, the 
Bible and the Experiences of Spiritualists agree 
perfectly. 



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Second Book of Samuel. 

The Second Book of Samuel contains little Spiritual- 
ism, but has many reports of evil doings, intrigue, 
war, etc. 

Chapter II., Verses 1 to 14: David inquired of 
Jehovah whether he should go up into the cities of 
Judah, and the spirit told him to go up. 

David Another of Jehovah's Mediums. 

V., 19: "And David enquired of the Lord, saying: 
Shall I go up to the Philistines ? Wilt thou deliver them 
unto mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go 
up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into 
thine hand." 

Spirit Gives Instructions, Also a Test. 

Chap. V., Verses 23 to 25 : David again enquired of 
Jehovah, and was told to attack when he (the spirit) 
should make "the sound of a going in the tops of the 
mulberry trees." 

When the signal was given David went up. Is it 
not spirit communion exemplified? 

Music at Seances. 
2nd Sam. VI., 5 : "David and all Israel played all 
manner of instruments before the Lord." 

Did the Lord enjoy their music? Scripture saith not. 

Spirit Jehovah Kills Uzza. 

This chapter tells more about the ark, or spirit cabi- 
net. 

Verse 6 : Uzza put his hand to it to steady it from 
tipping over. 

Verse 7 says: "And the anger of the Lord was 
kindled against Uzza, and God smote him there, for 
his error, and there he died by the ark of God." 



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Was this an act of Kind Providence? Uzza was 
innocent of any wrong intent. We prefer to disbelieve 
the story, rather than believe that God, the Father of 
all, is so unjust and so passionate. Was the ark charged 
with electricity, and did Moses use this incident to 
frighten the poor Israelites and gain better control of 
them? Who knows? 

Nathan Another Medium for Jehovah. 

VII., 4: The word of the Lord came to Nathan, 
after King David had suggested it to him, and gave 
orders for David to build Jehovah a house; the spirit 
explains that he had lived in a tent ever since they 
left Egypt, and the spirit instructed Nathan to tell 
David about it. 

According to Verse 6, Jehovah had dwelt in a tent 
449 years, and he was tired of it and wanted a house 
of wood. 

Spirit Reading Nathan Gives David. 

Verse 18 : Then David goes in and has a reading with 
Nathan. David does all the talking himself. He tells 
Jehovah he accepts the job of building his house for 
him. 

David and Uriah's Wife. 

The eleventh chapter records the terrible story of 
David and Uriah's wife, which convicts David of de- 
ception, licentiousness, murder, and other iniquities. 
This is so terrible that even Jehovah, who had upheld 
David in all his wickedness heretofore was angry, and 
condemned and punished him for it. 

Another Spirit Message to David. 
2 Sam. XII., Verse 9: Jehovah, speaking through 
the medium Nathan to King David, said : "Wherefore 



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hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do 
evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite 
with the sword ; and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, 
and hast slain him with the sword of the children of 
Ammon." 

David Pleads Guilty; Jehovah Forgives Him. 

Verse 13 : "And David said unto Nathan (the me- 
dium), I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan 
said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin ; 
thou shalt not die." 

Jehovah Kills David's Innocent Child. 

Verse 14: "Howbeit, because by this deed thou 
hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord 
to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee 
shall surely die." 

Jehovah thus punishes the innocent child for the 
father's guilt. Is this Divine justice? 

Verse 15: "And the Lord struck the child that 
Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick." 

Verses 16, 17: "David therefore besought God 
(Jehovah) for the child. He fasted, and lay down on 
the earth all night. His elders went to get him to raise 
up from the earth, but he would not, neither would 
he eat." 

Verse 18: The child died. 

Verse 20 : Then David "came into the house of the 
Lord and worshiped." 

Was there not great need for David to get religion 
and worship something good? Jehovah loves David, 
Acts XIII., 22, and 1st Sam. XIII, 14, say: "David 
is a man after God's own heart." 



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Birth of King Solomon. 

2 Sam., XII., 24: "And David comforted Bath- 

sheba, his wife, , , and she bare a son, and 

he called his name Solomon, and the Lord loved him." 

Did Solomon inherit his love of the opposite sex 
from his parents? If he did, he alone must bear the 
blame of taking a thousand wives. 

David's Mediumship Continues Despite His 
Wickedness. 

2nd Sam. XXL, Verse 1 : David inquired of the 
Lord, why he had brought the famine. And the Lord 
answered, It is Saul and his bloody house, because he 
slew the Gibeonites. Jehovah punished the innocent 
with the guilty as usual. 

Verse 6: The Gibeonites ask for seven of Saul's 
sons, "and we will hang them up unto the Lord in 
Gibeah." 

Killed Seven Sons for Sins of Father. 

Verses 7, 8, 9: They hanged them. That is, they 
killed seven sons for the wickedness of their father, 
and this was done by the direction of the spirit of 
the Lord Jehovah, the Egyptian warrior. (See Verse 1.) 

Jehovah's Anger Kindled Orders Israel Numbered — 
Kills 70,000 Because David Fulfilled His Order. 

Chap. XXIV., Verse 1 : "And again the anger of the 
Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David 
against them to say (i. e., he controlled David to say, 
etc.), Go number Israel and Judah." 

Verse 15 says: The Lord killed 70,000 men, be- 
cause David numbered Israel, when Jehovah ordered 
him to do it. 

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(the innocent Israelites) have done. And this is just 
what we are asking. Why should Divine Justice pun- 
ish the innocent people of Israel because David obeyed 
his orders? 

2nd Sam. XXIV., 11 to 14: David does not rely 
wholly upon his own mediumship, but relies upon Gad's 
spiritual powers. 

Verse 11: "The word of the Lord came unto the 
prophet Gad, David's seer, saying: (The message 
follows.) 

Book of First Kings — Solomon Another of Jehovah's 

Mediums. 

Holds a Dark Seance. 

1 Kings III., 5 : "In Gideon the Lord appeared to 
Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what 
I shall give thee." 

Verses 6 to 14 repeat the exact words of a conversa- 
tion between the spirit Jehovah and King Solomon. 
Who was present to hear and make note of this spirit 
communication? How can one tell if the report is 
correct? (See also 2nd Chron., Chap. I., Verses 7 
to 12.) 

Solomon Builds a Spirit Cabinet. 

Chap. VI., Verses 15 to 28, tells of his building an 
addition to the temple for the spirit cabinet and seance 
room. 

Verse 19 says : "And the oracle he prepared in the 
house within, to set there the ark of the covenant 
(spirit cabinet) of the Lord." 

The Bible is the oracle of the Christian. 

Verses 21, 22: "Solomon overlaid the whole house 
with gold. The whole altar that was by the oracle he 
overlaid with gold." 



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God Dwells in Thick Darkness. 

Chap. VIIL, Verses 9 to 12 : The cloud filled the 
house of the Lord. The priest could not stand to 
minister because of the cloud. 

Verse 12 says: "Then spake Solomon, The Lord 
said that he would dwell in thick darkness." 

Verse 13 : "I have surely built thee an house to 
dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in forever." 

Did Solomon need to build a house for Almighty 
God to live in — a settled place for Him to abide in 
forever ? 

The Word of God Means a Spirit Message. 

1st Kings XII., 22 : "But the word of God came unto 
Shemaiah, the Man of God (the spirit medium), say- 
ing," then follows the spirit message in the next two 
verses. 

Chapter XIII. mentions "Man of God" (a medium) 
twelve times, and "The word of the Lord" (spirit 
message), seven times. 

Verse 3: "The man of God (the medium) gave a 
sign (a test) the same day." 

Verse 4: Jeroboam, the king, "put forth his hand, 
saying, lay hold on him (the man of God). And his 
hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that 
he could not pull it in again." 

This was a strange phenomenon. 

Verse 5 : The sign or test was given as mentioned 
in the third verse. "Which the man of God (the me- 
dium) had given by the word of the Lord" (spirit 
message). 

Verse 6 : The King told him to entreat the spirit to 
heal his hand for him, and the King's hand was restored. 

Verse 18: One prophet (a medium) lied to another, 
which eventually caused his death. 



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1 Kings XIII. , 22: Prophesies his death, and the 
24th verse records it. 

King Jeroboam Consecrated or Ordained Un- 
worthy Ones. 

Verse 33 : "After this thing Jeroboam returned not 
from his evil way, but made again, of the lowest people, 
priests of the high places; whosoever would, he conse- 
crated him, and he became one of the priests of the 
high places. " 

Similar actions to these have occurred in Christianity, 
and also in Modern Spiritualism. History repeats 
itself. 

King Sends Wife to a Medium. 

Chap. XIV., Verse 1 : "At that time Abijah, the 
son of Jeroboam, fell sick." 

Verse 2 : "And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, 
I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not 
known to be the wife of Jeroboam ; and get thee to 
Shiloh : behold, there is Ahijah, the prophet, which 
told me that I should be king over this people." 

Bible Mediums Paid for Services. 

Verse 3 : "And take with thee ten loaves and crack- 
nels (a sort of seed cake, or bun), and a cruse of 
honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall 
become of the child." 

Presents for Mediums Customary in Bible Times. 

(See 2nd Kings VIII., 8, 9; Judges VI., 8, 17 to 20; 
1st Sam. IX., 3 to 10.) 

Ahijah a Blind Medium. 
Verse 4: "And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose 
and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. 
But Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by 
reason of his age." 



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Spirit Told Him She Was Coming. 
This Is Spirit Communion. 

XIV., 5 : "And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, 
the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee 
for her son, for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou 
say unto her ; for it shall be, when she cometh in that 
she shall feign herself to be another woman." 

Verse 6: "And it was so, when Ahijah heard the 
sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he 
said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam ; why feignest 
thou thyself to be another ? for I am sent to thee with 
heavy tidings." 

Verse 7: "Go tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord 
God of Israel. Forasmuch as I exalted thee from 
among the people, and made thee prince over my people, 
Israel." 

Spirit Jehovah Praises David. 

Verse 8: "And rent the kingdom away from the 
house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast 
not been as my servant David, who kept my command- 
ments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do 
that which was right in mine eyes." 

Jehovah Provoked to Anger. 

Verse 9: "But hast done evil above all that were 
before thee : for thou hast gone and made thee other 
gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and 
hast cast me behind thy back." 

Worshiping other gods or communing with other 
spirits was the most wicked thing, Jehovah claimed. 

Prophecy Made and Fulfilled. 
Verse 10 : "Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon 
the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam 
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will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, 
as a man . . ., till it be all gone." 

Foretells the Future. 

Verse 12 : "Arise thou, therefore, get thee to thine 
own house ; and when thy feet enter into the city, the 
child shall die/' 

Verse 17: "And Jeroboam's wife arose, and de- 
parted, and came to Tirzah ; and when she came to 
the threshold of the door, the child died." 

This is much like some people's visits to modern 
mediums. She went disguised, but the spirit preceded 
her and told the medium she was coming ; what she was 
coming for; and what he should tell her. Such is 
sometimes the case with modern mediums. 

Two Good Spirit Tests. 

Ahijah was a poor old blind man, but a good medium, 
as this scripture explains. He had foretold Jeroboam's 
becoming King of Israel, and this is why the King sent 
his wife for a reading with him. He thought, of course, 
if his wife were disguised, and the medium told her 
anything, the message would not be influenced by the 
medium's own mind, and he could the better rely on 
it. He simply wanted a test and to know if his child 
would live. 

He got the first test by the blind medium's calling 
his wife, the wife of Jeroboam, before she had spoken 
a word, and another good test was given when he told 
her the child would die as she returned home. 

If this is not Spiritualism, will some opposer of 
Spiritualism who knows tell us what it is? It is ex- 
actly what is being done constantly by Spiritualists. 



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If this medium, Ahijah, had lived in Michigan today, 
and had done just what this scripture says he did, he 
would have laid himself liable to arrest, conviction, 
fine, and imprisonment; and the authors of this nefari- 
ous law against such practices believe this story is 
God's law and infallibly true. 

Elijah a Wonderful Medium — Controls Weather. 
1 Kings XVII., 1 : He says : "There shall not be dew 
nor rain these years, but according to my word," 

Verses 2, 3, and 4: The word of the Lord (a spirit 
message) came to him telling him to hide himself by 
the brook Cherith ; that he should drink from the brook 
and the ravens would feed him there. " 

Jehovah Controls Birds to Feed Elijah. 

Verse 6 : "And the ravens brought him bread and 
flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the even- 
ing : and he drank at the brook." 

Where did the birds get the bread and flesh for 
Elijah's regular meals ? Can anyone believe these birds 
brought him meat and bread twice a day ? Could they 
carry so much? 

Verse 7 : The brook dried up because there was no 
rain. 

Spirit Communicates. 

Verse 8: "The spirit message," or "The word 
of the Lord" came to him again, saying: 

Verse 9: "Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which be- 
longeth to Zidon and dwell there ; Behold, I have com- 
manded a widow woman there to sustain thee." 

Widow's Cruse of Oil. 
Verses 10 and 12 : He asks the widow for a drink 
and a morsel of bread. The woman said she had but 



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a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse, 
and she was gathering sticks to "dress it." (Probably 
to bake the bread.) 

XVII., 13 : Elijah asked her to make a little cake for 
him first. 

Remarkable Spirit Phenomena. 

Verse 14: "For thus saith the Lord God of Israel 
(Elijah's spirit control), The barrel of meal shall not 
waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day 
that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth." 

Verse 15 : "And she went and did according to the 
saying of Elijah; and she, and he, and her house did 
eat many days." 

Verse 16: "And the barrel of meal wasted not, 
neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word 
of the Lord, which he spake by Elijah." 

How easy it is for some people who scoff at Spirit- 
ualism, to believe this Bible story of the spirit keeping 
the barrel supplied with meal and the cruse of oil con- 
tinually filled. 

Does Elijah Raise the Dead? 

Verse 17: The widow's son fell sick, "There was 
no breath left in him." 

Verse 19: He took him up to his room and laid 
him upon his bed. 

Verse 20: "And he cried unto the Lord and said: 
O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the 
widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?" 

Verse 21 : He stretched himself upon the child three 
times. 

Verse 22: "And the soul of the child came into him 
again and he revived." 



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Elijah a Fire Medium — Defeats Baal's Four 
Hundred and Fifty Prophets. 

1st Kings XVIIL, Verses 19 to 40, tells of a great 
contest between Elijah the Israelitish prophet, and 
his God, and four hundred and fifty of Baal's prophets 
and their God. 

Elijah Makes Terms for the Contest. 

Verse 23 : "Let them therefore give us two bullocks ; 
and let them (Baal's prophets) choose one bullock for 
themselves ; and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, 
and put no fire under ; and I will dress the other bul- 
lock and lay it on wood and put no fire under." 

Verse 24: "And call ye on the name of your gods 
(spirits) and I will call upon the name of the Lord 
(Jehovah's spirit) and the god that answereth by fire 
let him be God." 

Verse 26 : This was agreed upon and Baal's prophets 
called on their god from morning until noon with no 
results. 

Verse 27 : Elijah makes derision of them. 

Elijah Holds Fire Seance. 

Verses 36, 37 : Elijah prayed the Lord to hear him. 

Verse 38: "Then the fire of the Lord fell, and con- 
sumed the burnt sacrifice, and wood, and the stones, 
and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the 
trench." 

This converted the people. If Christianity could 
give such a test of its truth as this today, what an army 
of converts it could make. 

The truth is this : Elijah was a fire medium and his 
spirit guides could produce fire, as did other Bible 
mediums, and as is said to have been done in modern 
times. But there were no fire mediums among all of 



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Baal's prophets, therefore, their spirit guides could 
not produce such phenomena. It was not a question 
of "Who was God." 

An Angel Bakes a Cake for Elijah. 

1 Kings XIX., 1 to 4: Mrs. Ahab, whose name was 
Jezebel, threatens to serve Elijah as he served their 
prophets, and Elijah went a day's journey into the wil- 
derness and prayed for death. 

Verse 5 : "And as he lay and slept under a juniper 
tree, behold then an angel touched him, and said unto 
him, Arise and eat." 

Verse 6 : "And he looked, and behold, there was a 
caken baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his 
head. And he did eat and drink and laid him down 
again." 

Verse 7: "And the angel of the Lord came again 
the second time, and touched him, and said, arise and 
eat; because the journey is too great for thee." 

Fasts Forty Days. 

Verse 8 : "And he arose, and did eat and drink, and 
went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty 
nights, unto Horeb, the Mount of God." 

How can one believing this, doubt spirit return ? 

More Spirit Messages. 

Verse 9 : The spirit followed him and asked him 
what he was doing there. 

Verses 10, 1 1 : The spirit communicates with him. 

Verses 12, 13 : "Still small voice came." And "there 
came a voice unto him and said, What doest thou here, 
Elijah?" 

The remainder of this chapter records a conversa- 



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tion between Elijah and the spirit of the Lord, and 
he found Elisha, who figures as another man of God, 
or medium, in the scripture following. Is not spirit 
communion true, dear Christian skeptic? 

XX., 13 : "Thus saith the Lord : Hast thou seen all 
this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into 
thine hand this day: and thou shalt know that I am the 
Lord." 

Israelites Numbered — Only 7,000. 

Verse 15: "Then he numbered the young men of 
the princes of the provinces, and they were two hun- 
dred and thirty-two; and after them he numbered all 
the people, even all the children of Israel being seven 
thousand/' (This was in 901 B. C.) 

Jehovah a Warrior But Not God of the Valley. 

Verse 29: And the children of Israel slew of the 
Assyrians, an hundred thousand footmen in one day!' 

Kind reader, please consider: The 15th verse of this 
chapter says that all Israel, men, women and children, 
numbered but seven thousand." 

Could 7,000 slay 100,000 in one day? This spirit, 
Yah-weh, Jehovah, the Lord, or God, by whatever name 
called, is indeed a warring spirit. "Behold, I will de- 
liver it into thine hand this day and thou shalt know 
that I am the Lord." 

This promise was fulfilled by this God of war, if the 
story is true. 

Sons of the Prophets. 

Sons of the prophets were themselves prophets. See 
1st Kings XX., 35, 36, 41 ; 2nd Kings II., 3, 5, 7, 15. 

Prophecy Fulfilled. 
1st Kings, XXL, Verses 17 to 21 : The word of the 



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Lord came to Elijah, and he predicts Allah's and Jeze- 
bel's downfall. 

Chap. XXII., Verse 38 : This prophecy is fulfilled. 

Book of Second Kings — Jehovah Kills King Ahaziah 
For Consulting the God of Ekron. 

2nd Kings I., 1, 2: Ahaziah was injured by a fall 
through a lattice in his palace at Samaria, and he sent 
to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether he 
should recover from the fall. 

Spirit Communion. 

Verses 3 to 6 : The angel of the Lord (one of Jeho- 
vah's spirits) told Elijah that the King should die, be- 
cause he had sent to Baal-zebub, the heathen god, or 
spirit guide, to learn if he should die. (See also Verses 
16, 17.) 

Tutelary Gods. 

Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, like all the other gods 
of that day, including Jehovah, the God of the Israelites, 
was a tribal god. 

Every spirit guide directing a tribe, nation or indi- 
vidual, through the mediumship of a prophet, was 
known as a god. 

Elijah Consumes Fifty With Fire from Heaven. 

The King sent his captain and fifty men after Elijah. 
They found him, and the captain said to him, "Thou 
man of God (spirit medium), the King hath said come 
down." 

Verse 10: "And Elijah answered and said to the 
captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire 
come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy 
fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and 
consumed him and his fifty." 



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Elijah Consumed Second Fifty. 

2nd Kings L, 11 : "Again also he sent unto him an- 
other captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered 
and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the King 
said, Come down quickly." 

Verse 12: "And Elijah answered and said unto 
them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from 
heaven and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire 
of God came down from heaven and consumed him 
and his fifty." 

These men were innocent of any wrong. The King 
sent them to the medium Elijah; yet the fire of God 
came down from heaven and consumed them. How 
pitiful, if true ! 

Third Fifty Sent to Elijah. 

Verses 13, 14: The King sent the third captain with 
his fifty men, and this captain, on his knees, pleaded for 
their lives. 

Spirit Communion. 

Verse 15: "And the angel of the Lord said unto 
Elijah, Go down with him ; be not afraid of him. And 
he arose and went down with him unto the King." 

Elijah's Chariot of Fire — Great Aviation Miracle. 

In these days, when airships catch fire, they come 
down. Elijah's went up. 

2nd Kings II., 1 : "And it came to pass, when the 
Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, 
that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal." 

Verse 2: Elijah opposed Elisha's going to Beth-el 
with him, but he would go. 

Verse 3 : "And the sons of the prophets (they also 
were prophets), that were at Beth-el came forth to 
Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord 



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will take away thy master from thy head today ? And 
he said, Yea, I know it ; hold ye your peace." 

II., 4: Elijah tried to leave Elisha behind when 
he went to Jericho, but he would not be left, "so they 
came to Jericho. ,, 

Verse 5 : The mediums of Jericho also told Elisha 
that the Lord was going to take Elijah that day. Elisha 
was a medium, and knew it, and told them so, but said 
also, Say nothing about it. 

Verse 6 : Elijah did not want him to go with him to 
Jordan, but he went. 

Verse 7 : "And fifty of these young prophets went 
and stood to view afar off: and they (Elijah and 
Elisha) stood by Jordan." 

A Wonderful Miracle (?) — Stops Onflow of River 
Jordan With Old Coat. 

Verse 8 : "And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped 
it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided 
hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry 
ground." 

No modern medium was ever known to stop the 
onflow of a great river, divide its waters and cross its 
bed on dry ground. This was called a miracle from 
God. 

Christians must believe this story, for they teach it 
to their children in the Sabbath school. 

Verse 9 : "And it came to pass when they were gone 
over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do 
for thee, before I be taken away from thee, and Elisha 
said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be 
upon me." 

Verse 10: "And he said, Thou hast asked a hard 
thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken 



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from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not it shall 
not be so." 

Elijah Goes Up in Chariot of Fire. 

2nd Kings, II., 11 : "And it came to pass as they still 
went on and talked, that behold, there appeared a 
chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them 
asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into 
heaven" 

Verse 12: "And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My 
father, my father ! the chariot of Israel, and the horse- 
men thereof. And he saw them no more : and he took 
hold of his own clothes and rent them in two pieces." 

Why Did He Tear His Clothes? 

The mediums of old sometimes tore their clothing as 
a sign of mourning or when they were frightened or 
excited over some wonderful or miraculous occurrence. 
Sometimes they put dirt or ashes on their heads, but 
mediums do not act in that manner nowadays. 

Elijah's last fire seance carried him up to heaven, 
and eleven years later he comes to Jehoram with a 
spirit message in writing (2nd Chron. XXL, 12). 
Nothing more is heard from him until he and Moses 
materialize as spirits in a seance held by Jesus, Peter, 
John, and James on the top of an high mountain cen- 
turies later. (See Matt. XVII., 1 to 9.) 

Elisha Begins Doing Miracles. 

Verse 13 : He took up the mantle of Elijah that 
fell from him, and went back and stood by the bank 
of Jordan." 

Verse 14 : "And he took the mantle of Elijah that 
fell from him, and smote the waters, and said: (Who 
heard him say it ? This writer does not know.) Where 
is the Lord God of Elijah? And when he also had 



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smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither; 
and Elisha went over." 

This entire story of the Bible, like many others, lacks 
authenticity. 

Verse 15 : "And when the sons of the prophets 
which were to view at Jericho, saw him, they said, The 
spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha, and they came to 
meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before 
him." 

Verse 16 : Fifty strong men wanted to go and hunt 
Elijah, fearing that "the Lord hath taken him up, and 
cast him upon some mountain or into some valley. 
And he said ye shall not send." 

Verse 17: "And when they urged him till he was 
ashamed, he said send. And they found him not." 

Elisha's Next Miracle. 

Verses 19 to 22: He "heals" a flowing spring of 
poison water that kills vegetation and causes death, by 
putting salt in it, and says : "There shall not be from 
thence any more death or barren land." 

Could a little salt put in a flowing spring — one large 
enough to furnish irrigation for the land and water 
for the people's use — purify the source of the flow? 
How absurd! People who scoff at spirit phenomena 
assume to believe this. 

Elisha's Two She Bears. 

Verse 23: "And he (Elisha) went up from thence 
unto Beth-el ; and as he was going up by the way, there 
came forth little children out of the city, and mocked 
him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head ; go up, 
thou bald head." 

Verse 24 : "And he turned back and looked on them, 



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and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there 
came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tare 
forty and two children of them." 

This man of God cursed little children because they 
laughed at his bald head. Think of it. The cursing of 
little children should not be expected of a good man 
and certainly not from a "man of God." But, worse 
than that ; he or his spirit guide, or his God, sent two 
she-bears out of the woods and tore forty-two little 
children to pieces for such a trivial offense. This story 
is a disgrace to the pages it is supposed to adorn. 

Elisha a Medium — Three Kings Go to Him for Spirit 
Communications. 

2nd Kings III., 12 to 19: Three kings go to Elisha 
for communications, as people go to mediums today 
for that purpose. 

Elisha Requires Music for Seances. 

Verse 15 : Elisha says: "But now bring me a min- 
strel; and it came to pass when the minstrel played 
that the hand of the Lord came upon him." 

That is, he was controlled by the spirit of the Lord, 
Jehovah, or some one else. 

Verse 16 : The spirit orders the valley made full of 
ditches : 

Verse 17 : "For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see 
wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be 
filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your 
cattle, and your beasts." 

Verse 20: This prophecy was literally fulfilled ac- 
cording to this verse. 

Where did this water come from? Was it mate- 
nalized out of the unseen without coming as rain? 
Who can answer? 



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Sons to Become Bondsmen to Pay Father's Debts. 

IV., 1 to 8 : A prophet's widow was troubled. Her 
two sons were to become bondsmen or slaves in 
payment for the debts of their dead father, and Elisha 
told her to borrow all her neighbor's empty vessels and 
take the only pot of oil she possessed, and pour out 
into the vessels, which she did until they were all full. 
Elisha then told her to sell the oil and pay their indebt- 
edness, and live with her children on the rest of the 
proceeds of the sale. 

(Elijah's cruse of oil, same 1st Kings XVIL, 10, 14.) 

It seems easy for a Christian to accept Elisha's 
mediumship mentioned above as divine truth. 

If men or gods could do those things now, no one 
need go hungry or starve as many thousands do. 

Another Miraculous Conception. 

Verses 8 to 14: The spirit of the Lord manifesting 
through Elisha, wanted to be kind to "a great woman" 
who had befriended him, and he said to her : "Wouldest 
thou be spoken for to the king or the captain of the 
host? and she answered, I dwell among mine own 
people." 

Verse 14: "And he said, What then is to be done 
for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily, she hath no 
child, and her husband is old." 

Verse 15 : "And he said call her, and when he had 
called her she stood in the door." 

Verse 16: "And he said, About this time of life, 
thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, 
thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid." 

Verse 17: "And the woman conceived and bare a 
son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, accord- 
ing to the time of life." 



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What strange and wonderful powers these prophets 
(mediums) of those ancient days possessed if these 
reports are true. If they are not true, what then? 

Elisha Raises the Dead. 

IV., 18 to 37 tells the story of how this woman's 
miraculously conceived son was taken sick in the har- 
vest field and was carried to his mother. 

Verse 20 says : "He sat on her knees 'til noon, and 
then died." 

Verse 32: "And when Elisha was come into the 
house, behold, the child was dead." 

Verse 34 : "And he went up, and lay upon the child, 
and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon 
his eyes, and his hands upon his hands ; and he stretched 
himself upon the child, and the flesh waxed warm." 

Verse 35 : Elisha "stretched himself upon him 
(again) and the child sneezed seven times (who counted 
the sneezes?), and the child opened his eyes." 

Though this child was both miraculously conceived, 
and miraculously raised from the dead, it seems he was 
not of sufficient consequence to be given a name or to 
ever be mentioned again. Wonders never cease in the 
Bible records. (It will be remembered that Elijah 
healed another widow's son in the same way. See 
1st Kings XVII., 17 to 24.) 

Another Miracle — Elisha Neutralizes Poison. 

If modern mediums did these things it would be called 
witchcraft : Verses 39, 40, 41 : "The sons of the 
prophets were sitting before Elisha eating greens that 
contained wild gourds, when they cried out, O thou 
man of God, there is death in the pot, and he cast meal 
into the pot and they could eat it." 



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Elisha Makes a Little Food Feed a Hundred Men. 

Verses 42 to 44 tell the story. It may be likened to 

the loaves and fishes of Jesus. Though on a smaller 

scale. 

Elisha Heals a Leper. 

2 Kings V., 1 : "Naaman, the captain of the host of 
the King of Assyria, was a great man. . . . But he was 
a leper/' and a little captive Israelitish maid told her 
mistress of a prophet in Israel who would cure Naaman. 
He heard of it and went to Elisha, the prophet (me- 
dium), and all he told Naaman to do, was to go and 
wash in Jordan seven times, and he should be clean. 

Verse 14 : "Then went he down and dipped himself 
seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the 
man of God (the medium), and his flesh came again 
like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean. ,, 

Elisha Refused Pay — Was Not That a Miracle? 

Verse 15 : Naaman wanted to pay Elisha for healing 
him and would have paid him well, but — 

Verse 16 : Elisha refused to accept it. 

Verse 17: Naaman offered to give Elisha's servant 
two mules, and promised he would never more "sacri- 
fice unto other gods, but unto the Lord." 

Verse 18: But he would be obliged to escort his 
master to his place of heathen worship. 

Leprosy Transferred from One to Another. 

Following this, Elisha's servant took some presents 
from Naaman, and Elisha was so angry that he put 
the leprosy of Naaman upon his servant Gehazi, de- 
claring it should remain on him and his seed forever. 
"And he became as white as snow." 

Could such a thing be done by a prophet or medium ? 
Is this not witchcraft ? 



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Ax Swims for Medium Elisha. 

2 Kings VI., Verses 1 to 4: Elisha went with the 
sons of the prophets (the mediums) to live at the Jor- 
dan, and were getting out timber to make a place to 
dwell in. 

Verse 5 : "But as one was felling a beam the ax 
head fell into the water : and he cried, and said, Alas, 
master ! for it was borrowed." 

Verse 6: "And the man of God (the medium, 
Elisha) said, Where fell it? And he showed him the 
place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither ; 
and the iron did swim." 

Verse 7: "Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. 
And he put out his hand and took it." 

Is this not a strong manifestation of spirit phenom- 
ena ? He who can believe it should not scoff at modern 
spirit phenomena. 

Elisha Reveals Enemy War Secrets. 

Verses 8 to 11: Elisha uses his mediumship to assist 
Israel to defeat the King of Syria, which fact troubled 
him. 

Verse 12: "And one of his servants said, None, 
my Lord, O King: but Elisha, the prophet, that is in 
Israel, telleth the King of Israel the words that thou 
speaketh in thy bed-chamber." 

Verses 14 and 15 : Horses, chariots, and a great 
host surrounded Dothan where Elisha was. 

Clairvoyance. 

Verse 17 : Elisha prays and his spirit guide caused 
the young man to become clairvoyant. 

Prayer Blinds Assyrians as Gas Blinded Allies in 
World War. 

Verse 18: "And when they came down to him, 
Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this 



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people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote 
them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha." 

Elisha Lies to Assyrians. 
Verse 19 : "And Elisha said unto them, This is not 
the way, neither is this the city ; follow me, and I will 
bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them 
to Samaria. ,, 

Lord Opens Assyrians' Eyes at Elisha's Request. 

Verse 20: "And it came to pass, when they were 
come to Samaria, that Elisha said, Lord, open the eyes 
of these men that they may see. And the Lord opened 
their eyes, and they saw ; and, behold, they were in the 
midst of Samaria. ,, 

How can people believe all these things and yet 
doubt the natural phenomena of Spiritualism. 

Elisha Well Paid Medium. 

This prophet received better pay than modern psych- 
ics do, and so did many other Bible mediums. 

VIII., 9 : "So Hazael went to meet him, and took a 
present with him, even of every good thing of Damas- 
cus, forty camels' burden" (enough to pay pretty well 
for one interview with a medium). 

Elisha Tells an Untruth to His Client. 

Verse 10 : "And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto 
him, Thou mayest certainly recover ; howbeit the Lord 
(the spirit Jehovah) hath shewed me that he shall 
surely die." 

Verses 12 and 13 : The medium tells Hazael that he 
will be King of Syria, and do all manner of wickedness. 

Verse 15 : King Benhadad dies. Hazael becomes 
King of Syria, as predicted by Elisha. 



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Touching Elisha's Corpse Raises Dead. 

Chap. XIII., Verse 20: "And Elisha died, and they 
buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded 
the land at the coming in of the year." 

Verse 21 : "And it came to pass, as they were burying 
a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and 
they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and 
when the man was let down, and touched the bones of 
Elisha, he revived and stood upon his feet." 

Elisha's mediumship must have been greatly physical, 
as his old dead body, after he left it, raised a dead man 
to life. Wonderful, indeed, are the ways of the Lord ! 
But does an intelligent person of today believe it? 

Well, Elisha is dead, his career is run, and his record 
is before us. Was he a medium? Did he have psychic 
power? We must reject the whole story of his doings, 
or accept the fact of his mediumship as it is herein 
recorded. Not all that is attributed to his gifts of the 
spirit can or need be accepted, as there were writers in 
the days of Elisha who possessed great imaginations, 
just as there are today, who enlarge on the occurrences 
in modern seances, and doubtless much of this is 
hearsay. 

Lions Sent to Kill Unbelievers. 

2nd Kings XVII., 25 : "And so it was, at the begin- 
ning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the 
Lord ; therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which 
slew some of them." 

Verse 26 says : "Therefore he hath sent lions among 
them, and, behold, they (the lions) slay them, because 
they know not the manner of the God of the land." 

A Big Slaughter by One Angel. 
XIX., 35 : "And it came to pass that night, that the 
angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of 



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the Assyrians, an hundred four score and five thou- 
sand (185,000), and when they arose early in the 
morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. " 

(Isaiah XXX VII., 36, the same.) 

He who does not believe the above statement is an 
infidel, according to the dictionaries, and he will be 
damned, according to orthodox Christianity, for his 
unbelief. 

Jehovah Changes His Mind. 

2 Kings XX., Verse 1 : Hezekiah was sick unto death, 
and the Lord, speaking through the medium Isaiah, 
said : "Set thine house in order : for thou shalt die 
and not live." 

Prayer Answered. 

Verses 2, 3 : Hezekiah prayed for health, "and wept 
sore." 

Verse 4: "And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was 
gone out into the middle court, that the word of the 
Lord (the spirit message) came to him saying, 

Another Spirit Message. 

Verse 5 : "Turn again and tell Hezekiah, the cap- 
tain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of 
David, thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen 
thy tears; behold, I will heal thee: on the third day 
thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord." 

Verse 6: "And I will add unto thy days fifteen 
years; and I will deliver thee and this city out of the 
hand of the King of Assyria; and I will defend this 
city for mine own sake, and for my servant David's 
sake." (Isaiah XXX VIII., 4, the same as above.) 

Verse 7: "And Isaiah (the medium) said, Take a 
lump of figs, and they took and laid it on the boil, and 
he recovered." 



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Was this cure a miracle, or was he cured by prayer, 
or by tears, or with the use of the lump of figs, or was 
it by the use of all three that he was cured ? Did the 
power of suggestion enter into the case, encouraging 
the patient to rally? We cannot tell. However, the 
man was healed as the spirit foretold he would be. 
Similar cures by the thousands have been made by 
modern mediums, though not with the use of figs. 

Hezekiah Wants Proof He Will Be Healed. 

Verse 8: "And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah (the me- 
dium), What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal 
me, and that I shall go up unto the house of the Lord 
the third day?" 

Verse 9 : "And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have 
of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he 
hath spoken : shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, 
or go back ten degrees ?" 

Isaiah Stops the Sun. 

Verse 10: "And Hezekiah. answered, it is a light 
thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees, nay, but 
let the shadow return backward ten degrees." 

"And Isaiah the prophet (the medium) cried unto 
the Lord ; and he brought the shadow ten degrees back- 
ward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz." 

This is spirit phenomena of the Bible, Isaiah the 
medium, Jehovah the spirit control. 

A sun dial is an instrument for showing the time 
of day from the shadow of the sun on a graduated 
surface. 

Some Christians who assume to believe the above 
Bible story scoff and deride Spiritualists for believing 
that spirits move a table. Which is easier, to stop the 



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world turning and turn it back ten degrees, then start 
it ahead again, or to lift a table off the floor? "Back- 
ward, turn backward, O time, in thy flight," says the 
poet, but here is a case in which it did turn backward 
ten degrees, if the story is true in this "inerrant" Bible. 
But the author's credulity is not great enough to accept 
this impossible statement as true. He prefers to use 
reason rather than accept revelation. 

Joshua stops sun, Joshua X., 12 to 15, page 77. 

Isaiah stops sun, 2nd Kings XX., 8 to 11, page 144. 

Story is repeated in Isaiah, XXXVIII. , 7, 8. 
Opposed to Spiritualism. 

2nd Kings XXI., 6: "And he made his son pass 
through the fire, and observed times, and used enchant- 
ments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards : he 
wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, 
to provoke him to anger." 

2nd Kings XXIII. , 24: Josiah classed those who 
had familiar spirits with workers of witchcraft, and 
put them away ; probably put them to death. 

It must be that some people had familiar spirits as 
the scriptures tell, and God would not legislate against 
nothing. 

If this is true, then spirit return and spirit com- 
munion is true, and if it is true, was not Jehovah, 
whether a spirit of God or of man, violating his own 
decree against familiar spirits inasmuch as he was the 
familiar spirit of Moses and his other prophets or me- 
diums? If this scripture is true, spirit communion is 
true, and Spiritualism is based on truth. 

Huldah, a Woman Medium, Jehovah's Prophetess. 
XXII. , 14 : Hilkiah, the priest, and four others went 
to Huldah, the prophetess (the medium) and received 
a message. 



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Verse 13 : King Josiah sent them to this lady medium 
to inquire about a "book of law" that had been found 
in "the house of the Lord," in which the poor Israelites 
were condemned for burning incense unto other gods. 

Book of First Chronicles. 

The first nine chapters of 1st Chronicles is composed 
vi ^eneologies, and is of little common interest. The 
writer of these books takes much from other books 
of the Bible, repeating certain stories therein written. 

Mediumship of a Soldier. 

Amasai was not a "prophet," "man of God," or an 
"anointed" one. He was a soldier, a chief of the cap- 
tains, a military man. 

1 Chron. XII., 18: "Then the spirit came upon 
Amasai, chief of the captains." 

The "spirit" — not Almighty God — controlled him, 
and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou 
son of Jesse; peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be 
to thine helpers, for thy God helpeth thee. Then David 
received them, and made them captains of the band." 

Singers and Music for Seances. 

1st Chron. XV., Verses 14 to 21 : David appoints 
many singers and musicians to accompany the Ark 
(spirit cabinet) to the seance room where they held 
their seances. 

Evidently these primitive people knew the power of 
harmony, and appreciated good music, and its splendid 
help in seances. 

David sings Jehovah's praises, and says of the 
anointed (the mediums), Chap. XVI., 21 : "He (Jeho- 
vah) suffered no man to do them wrong, yea, he 



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reproved kings for their sakes," and in the 23rd verse, 
Jehovah says : "Touch not mine anointed and do my 
prophets (mediums) no harm." Spirits generally 
take care of and protect their worthy mediums. 

Number Israel, Satan Provoked David To. 

Chap. XXL, Verse 1 : "Satan provoked David to 
number Israel." 

Verse 7: Jehovah was displeased with this, as he 
was when he himself moved David to number Israel, 
as is explained later. 

Jehovah Gives David Choice of Three Curses. 

Verse 9: "And the Lord spake unto Gad, David's 
seer (a seer is a medium), saying:" 

Verse 10: "Go and tell David, saying, Thus saith 
the Lord, I offer thee three things : choose thee one of 
them that I may do it unto thee." 

Verse 12: "Either three years' famine, or three 
months to be destroyed before thy foes while that the 
sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee ; or else three 
days the sword of the Lord, even the pestilence in the 
land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout 
all the coasts of Israel." 

Because David Numbered Israel Jehovah Killed 

Seventy Thousand. 
Verse 14 : "So the Lord sent pestilence upon Israel : 
and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men." 

All these men killed because David numbered Israel. 
They were not to blame for David's numbering them, 
and the offense was a trivial one, to say the least. Was 
this an act of Divine justice? 



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Jehovah Sends an Angel and Repents. 
1st Chron. XXL, Verse 15 : "And God sent an angel 
unto Jerusalem to destroy it : and as he was destroying, 
the Lord beheld, and HE repented him of the evil 
(Is the Lord an evil doer?), and said to the angel that 
destroyed, It is enough; stay now thine hand. And 
the angel of the Lord stood by the threshing floor of 
Oman the Jebusite." 

David Clairvoyant. 
Angels Come with Swords. 

Verse 16: "And David lifted up his eyes, and saw 
the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the 
heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched 
out over Jerusalem." (Are Jehovah's angels all soldiers 
carrying swords?) 

Jehovah Punishes the Innocent — David Protests — 
Is David More Just Than Jehovah. 

Verse 17: "And David said unto God, Is it not I 
that commanded the people to be numbered ? even it is 
I that have sinned and done evil indeed ; but as for these 
sheep, what have they done? Let thine hand, I pray 
thee, O Lord, my God, be on me, and on my father's 
house ; but not on thy people, that they may be plagued." 

In this, was not David more reasonable than Jehovah, 
his spirit guide ? 

Verse 18 : "Then the angel of the Lord commanded 
Gad (the medium) to say to David, that David should 
go up and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshing- 
floor of Oman the Jebusite." 

Verse 24 : David paid full price for Oman's thresh- 
ing-floor, and said he would not offer burnt-offerings 
without cost. 



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David a Fire Medium. 

Verse 26 : "And David built there an altar unto the 
Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, 
and called upon the Lord ; and he answered him from 
heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering." 

David Afraid of an Angel With a Sword. 
Verse 30: "But David could not go before it (the 
altar) to inquire of God : for he was afraid because of 
the sword of the angel of the Lord." Did an angel 
ever use a sword to injure a mortal? 

Cast Lots to Learn God's Wishes. 

Casting lots is a phase of Spiritism unknown to Mod- 
ern Spiritualism. 

These poor Israelites believed that the Lord con- 
trolled the lot and directed its result, and many ques- 
tions were decided by lot. 

XXIV., 5 to 31, is a record of their castings lots. 
XXV., beginning at the 7th verse and ending at the 31st 
verse, is recorded another occurrence of casting lots. 

Music Used in Their Seances. 

The 1st to 6th verses of this chapter show they used 
music in their seances the same as mediums do today. 

Spirit Gives Wonderful Pattern for a House. 
Chap. XXVIII., Verses 11 and 12: David gave 
to Solomon all the patterns of the house he was to 
build for God. The spirit had given David all of 
them. 

Dermo-Psychography-Spirit Writes on David's 
Skin. 

Writing on the skin in blood letters is one phase of 
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Verse 19 : "All this, said David, the Lord made me 
understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all 
the works of this pattern." 

David Dies. 
Chap. XXIX., 28: "And he (David) died in good 
old age, full of days, riches and honor : and Solomon 
reigned in his stead." 

Book of Second Chronicles — Solomon a Medium — 
Holds a Dark Seance. 

Chap. I., Verse 7: "In the night did God appear 
unto Solomon and said unto him, Ask what I shall give 
thee." 

A Splendid Spirit Message to Solomon. 

Verses 11, 12, contain a fine spirit message given to 
Solomon, promising him riches, wealth and honor, such 
as no king ever had or ever will have again. 

Solomon Builds the Temple by Spirit Instruction — 
No Mechanics in Israel. 

Chap. II., III., and IV. : Solomon built the costly 
temple, or house for God, but had to send to the 
heathen for mechanics because there were "no smiths 
in Israel." 

Great Sacrifices — Dedication of King Solomon's 
Temple. 

V., 5 : "And they brought up the Ark, and the 
tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels 
that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and 
the Levites bring up." 

Verse 6: "Also King Solomon, and all the congre- 
gation of Israel that were assembled unto him before 
the Ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen which could not be 
told nor numbered for multitude" 



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Large Seance — Music Used. 

The 12th, 13th and 14th verses are a record of a 
big seance. Then the house was filled with a cloud. "So 
that the priests could not stand to minister by reason 
of the cloud ; the glory of the Lord had filled the house 
of God." 

They had plenty of music, which made good condi- 
tions for good results. 

2nd Chron. VI., 1 : God dwells in thick darkness. 

Solomon's Prayer. 

In this prayer Solomon asks help, and gives instruc- 
tions to his spirit guide, Jehovah (13th to 42nd verses). 

More of Solomon's Fire Mediumship. 

Chap. VII., Verse 1 : "Now when Solomon had 
made an end of praying, the fire came down from 
heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sac- 
rifices ; and the glory of the Lord filled the house. ,, 

Powerful Manifestation. 

Verse 2 : "And the priests could not enter into the 
house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had 
filled the Lord's house." 

Cruden defines this sentence as "the cloud, which 
was an usual token of God's glorious presence," and 
quotes 1st Kings VIII., 11, and John XL, 40. 

2nd Chron. VII., Verses 3 and 4: When the fire 
came down "the children of Israel were evidently fright- 
ened but convinced." 

Dark Seance — Solomon Holds One for 
Materialization. 

Verse 12 : "And the Lord appeared to Solomon by 
night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and 



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have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacri- 
fice." 

What Good Did These Sacrifices Do Jehovah? 

What did Jehovah get out of these sacrifices ? What 
good did the burning of cattle and sheep do him? If 
these sacrifices did him no good, why did he demand 
it in such a colossal manner, and why did he demand 
it from individuals, poor men and destitute women, as 
personal sacrifices? 

Did Jehovah Really Demand Them? 

Was it really the spirit of Jehovah that demanded 
it, or was it Moses and the other prophets (mediums) 
of Jehovah, who were "prophesying out of their own 
minds/' who "prophesy deceits" (Isaiah XXX., 10, and 
"prophesy falsely" (Jeremiah V., 31). "Prophets that 
prophesy lies, they prophesy false visions" (Jeremiah 
XIV., 14). 

The question arises, were these mediums deceiving 
the poor Israelites ? or was Jehovah a heartless, fiendish 
spirit? We would prefer to doubt the honesty of these 
mediums, rather than the spirit. 

Seven Days of Cattle Slaughter at Dedication. 

VII., 7 and 8: Solomon spent seven days in dedi- 
cating this temple. The streets must have been flooded 
with the blood of the cattle and sheep that were sacri- 
ficed. 

Jehovah's Promises and Threats. 

The remainder of this chapter Jehovah devotes to 
promises and threats. He tells the poor, unsophisti- 
cated Israelites, through the mediumship of King Solo- 
mon, beginning at the 12th verse, that, if they do 
"humble themselves" and do not serve other gods and 



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worship them, he will shower blessings upon them, but 
if they do worship other gods he threatens them 
with drouth, locusts, pestilence, and general disaster 
and ruin. 

Music for the Seance Room. 
2nd Chron. IX., 11 : "And the King made of algum 
trees terraces to the house of the Lord (the seance 
room), and to the King's palace, and harps and psal- 
teries for singers ; and there were none such seen be- 
fore in the land of Judah." 

Another Spirit Message. 
XL, 2: "But the word of the Lord (a spirit mes- 
sage) came to Shemaiah, the man of God (the spirit 
medium), saying:" Then follows the message of the 

spirit. 

Put to Death for Not Accepting Jehovah. 

Chap. XV., Verse 13 : It says, "That whosover 
would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put 
to death, whether small or great, whether man or 
woman." 

Is This a Christian Country? 

Are these teachings what the Constitution of the 
United States stands for? Is this the religious liberty 
for which our forefathers suffered and died? Are 
these the teachings of Christianity? Is this Bible all 
that is needed for our faith and practice, as Christians 
claim ? 

Lying Spirits from God Deceive Ahab. 

Jehovah, the God of Israel, wanted to kill Ahab, so he 
did it as follows : 

XVIII, 19: "And the Lord said, Who shall entice 
Ahab, King of Israel, that he may go up and fall at 



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Ramoth-gilead ? And one spake saying after this man- 
ner, and another saying after that manner." 

Verse 20 : "Then there came out a spirit, and stood 
before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the 
Lord said unto him, Wherewith ?" 

Verse 21 : "And he said, I will go out, and be a 
lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets; and the 
LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt 
also prevail ; go out and do even so." 

Verse 22: "Now therefore behold the Lord hath 
put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets : 
and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee." 

Micaiah was proved to be the only true prophet in 
this case. One should read it all. 

A Spirit Communicates in Writing — Jehoram a 
Writing Medium. 

XXI., 12: "And there came a writing to him 
(to King Jehoram) from Elijah the prophet, saying: 
Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father." Here 
follows the spirit Elijah's message. 

Elijah had been dead eleven years when he wrote 
this message. He went up in a chariot of fire with 
horses of fire, and, of course, was cremated. And 1st 
Cor. XV., 50, says : Flesh and blood cannot enter the 
kingdom of God. Therefore, Elijah was dead, and 
his spirit returned and communicated by writing. This 
message was the first word received from him since his 
fiery ascension, which occurred B. C. 896, and his 
spirit communication was written B, C. 885, eleven 
years after his death, according to Christian chronology. 

Is not spirit communion true, according to scripture ? 

We will hear more from Elijah when we reach the 
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An Angel Acts in War. 

2nd Chron. XXXII., 21 : "And the Lord sent an 
angel which cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the 
leaders and captains, in the camp of the King of Assy- 
ria ; so he returned with shame of face to his own land. 
And when he came unto the house of his God, they that 
came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the 
sword." 

Jehovah Saves Israel from King of Assyria. 

Verse 22 : "Thus the Lord saved Hezekiah and the 
inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, 
the King of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, 
and guided them on every side/' 

Jehovah Was a Powerful Spirit Guide — Gave 

Hezekiah a Sign. 
Verse 24 : "In those days Hezekiah was sick to the 
death, and prayed unto the Lord; and he spake unto 
him, and he gave him a sign" (a test). 

Not Spiritualism, But Used Against It. 

2nd Chron. XXXIII., 6: "And he caused his chil- 
dren to pass through the fire in the valley of the son 
of Hinnom ; and he observed times, and used enchant- 
ments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar 
spirit, and with wizards : he wrought much evil in the 
sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger." 

Christians are observers of times. Their Bible teaches 
that there is such a thing as witchcraft, although no 
one nowadays believes there ever was a witch. Spirit- 
ualists have familiar spirits, and that is all in this scrip- 
ture that applies to Spiritualism. 

Spiritualists do have familiar spirits and are made 
happy by them. Have not all the religions of the world, 
sometime had their familiar spirits? 



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A Lady Medium's Prophecy. 

XXXIV., 22 : "And Hilkiah, and they that the king 
had appointed, went to Hulda the prophetess (went to 
the medium for a reading). . . . (Now she dwelt in 
Jerusalem in the college) and they spake to her to 
that effect." 

Verse 23 : "And she answered them, Thus saith the 
Lord God of Israel, Tell the man that sent you to me, 
Then follows the spirit message. 

These men went to this woman medium to get a 
communication from the spirit friends, and they got it 
just as people get messages through mediums today. 

Book of Ezra. 

The book of Ezra contains very little Spiritualism. 
Ezra was a man of God (a medium), a priest, and he 
"made a covenant with the God of Israel to put away 
all the (strange) wives and such as are born of them." 

Divorce Court, Greatest of Bible. 

X., 3 : Shechaniah speaks to Ezra as follows : 

"Now therefore let us make a covenant with God to 
put away all the wives, and such as are born of them 
(all of their children), according to the council of my 
Lord, and those that tremble at the commandment of 
our God ; and let it be done according to the law." 

Some Christian churches are opposed to divorces. 

Verse 11: "Now therefore make confession unto 
the Lord God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; 
and separate yourselves from the people of the land, 
and from the strange wives." 

Rainy Season Hurries Matters. 

Verse 13 : "But the people are many, and it is a 
time of much rain, and we are not able to stand with- 



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out (evidently there were so many to be granted di- 
vorces that there was not room in the houses or tents 
for them, so court was held out of doors, and the rain 
caused them to urge haste), neither is this a work of 
one day or two ; for we are many that have transgressed 
in this thing." 

Ezra X., Verse 14: "Let now our rulers of all the 
congregation stand, and let them that have taken strange 
wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with 
them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, 
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be 
turned from us." 

Jehovah evidently did not care how many wives the 
Israelites took, nor how many they had, but He was 
very much opposed to their taking wives from tribes 
that worshiped other gods than himself. 

Verse 16 : "And the children of the captivity did so. 
And Ezra, the priest, with certain chiefs of the fathers, 
after the house of their fathers, and all of them by 
their names, were separated, and sat down in the first 
day of the tenth month to examine the matter." 

Verse 17: "And they made an end with all the men 
that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first 
month" 

Thus this court session lasted two months. 

Then follows the naming of one hundred and thirty 
men whose sons had taken strange wives, and who 
put them away at this time. 

Verse 44 says : "All these had taken strange wives 
(wives of other tribes or nations), and some of them 
had wives by whom they had children." 

If these men were as prolific as Rehoboam, who "took 
eighteen wives and three score (60) (other women), 
and begat twenty and eight (28) sons and three score 



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(60) daughters" (2nd Chron. XL, 21), they would 
have had two thousand three hundred and forty sons. 
If each of their sons had but one "strange wife," there 
would have been put away in the divorce court two 
thousand three hundred and forty innocent women. 
If each of these sons had taken as many wives as King 
Rehoboam, the son of King Solomon, had taken, namely, 
seventy-eight, there would have been ten thousand one 
hundred and forty divorced women "put away" in the 
two-month session of this holy divorce court; to say 
nothing of what it would have been if these men of 
this one tribe of Israel who took "strange wives" had 
taken as many each as King Solomon did. Three hun- 
dred of his one thousand wives were princesses of other 
tribes and heathen nations, consequently were "strange 
wives," and probably many of the other seven hun- 
dred were. 

How can the orthodox Christian Church that opposes 
divorce harmonize such teachings with the teachings of 
their "holy" and "infallible Bible," as told in this story 
of the greatest divorce court in history? 

There are some other easy methods of divorce pre- 
scribed in the scriptures. As a sample see Deut, XXIV., 
lto4. 

Spiritualists do not believe in wholesale divorces, but 
they do believe one wife at a time is sufficient, if she is 
a good one, and if she is a bad one, she is one too many ; 
and that a bad husband is one too many for any good 
woman. 

These "strange wives" of the Israelites were all inno- 
cent of any wrong, yet Jehovah, speaking through this 
"prophet," "man of God," or spirit medium, separated 
these wives and all their children from their husbands 
and fathers. And the only reason given for doing it 



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was that they were women of other tribes or nations 
who worshiped other gods than Jehovah himself. 

The Book of Job — Eliphaz a Medium. 

Job III., Verse 1: "After this (persecution, etc.), 
opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day." 

Verse 3 : Job curses the day he was conceived and 
the day he was born. This whole chapter is devoted 
to it; and in the fourth chapter Eliphaz, Job's chief 
friend, answers him, taking the stand that God's retri- 
bution in this world is certain, and that consequently 
suffering is a proof of previous sin. 

Proof of Eliphaz' Mediumship. 

IV., 12 : Eliphaz says : "Now a thing was secretly 
brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof." 

Verse 13 : "In thoughts from the visions of the 
night, when deep sleep falleth on men." 

Verse 14 : "Fear came upon me, and troubling, which 
made all my bones to shake." 

Verse 15: "Then a spirit passed before my face: 
the hair of my flesh stood up !" 

Verse 16: "It (the spirit) stood still, but I could 
not discern the form thereof : an image was before 
mine eyes ; and there was silence, and I heard a voice 
saying," 

A Spirit Message. 

Verse 17: "Shall mortal man be more just than 
God ? Shall a man be more pure than his maker ;" 

Verse 18: "Behold he put no trust in his servants; 
and his angels he charged with folly." 

Verse 19: "How much less in them that dwell in 
houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which 
are crushed before the moth?" 



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This spirit's message is evidently directed to Job, for 
Job did not believe in a future life, at this time. 

Job's Materialism. 

In Chap. VII., 9, he says : "As the cloud is consumed 
and vanisheth away ; so he that goeth down to the grave 
shall come up no more." 

VII., 10: "He shall return no more to his house, 
neither shall his place know him any more." 

Verse 21, last part, says : "For now shall I sleep in 
the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but 
I shall not be! y (This is annihilation, is it not?) 

X., 21 : "Before I go whence I shall not return, even 
to the land of darkness and the shadow of death." 

Verse 22 : "A land of darkness, as darkness itself ; 
and of the shadow of death, without any order, and 
where the light is as darkness." 

XIV., 7 : "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut 
down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender 
branch thereof will not cease." 

Verse 10: "But man dieth and wasteth away: yea, 
man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ?" 

Verse 11 : "As the waters fail from the sea, and the 
flood decayeth and dryeth up :" 

Dead Shall Not Be Raised Out of Their Sleep. 

Verse 12 : "So man lieth down, and riseth not till 
the heavens be no more ; they shall not awake, nor be 
raised out of their sleep." 

This scripture contradicts the doctrines of the Advent 
church. 

Materialism. 
Verse 14: "If a man die shall he live again? All 
the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my 
change come." 



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Job XVI., 22 : "When a few years are come, then I 
shall go the way whence I shall not return." 

XVII., 13: "If I wait, the grave is mine house: I 
have made my bed in the darkness." 

XVII., 16 : "They shall go down to the bars of the 
pit when our rest together is in the dust." 

XXL, Verse 26: "They shall lie down alike in the 
dust, and the worm shall cover them." 

Verse 32 : "Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and 
shall remain in the tomb." 

Materialism shuts its eyes to the sunlight of truth 
and shipwrecks every human life in the cyclone of 
death. How gloomy is materialism ! Spiritualism 
opens our eyes to the beautiful sunshine of truth, and 
on the calm waters of scientific demonstration enters, 
through the gateway of death, the beautiful harbor of 
the summerland, the spirit home of our loved ones. 

O how beautiful is Spiritualism! 

XXXII. , 8 : Elihu says, But there is a spirit in man 
and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them under- 
standing. 

Palmistry Indicated. 

XXXVIL, 7 : "He sealeth up the hand of every man, 
that all men may know his work." 

Verse 23 : "Touching the Almighty, we cannot find 
him out. He is excellent in power and in judgment, and 
in plenty of justice ; He will not afflict." 

After all the terrible afflictions the Almighty is sup- 
posed to have placed upon His chosen people, how can 
Elihu say : "He will not afflict." 

After all of the foregoing materialism of Job, he be- 
comes a Spiritualist and a medium, as is shown by the 
following scripture: 



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Mediumship, Job Develops It. 

XL., 6: "The spirit of the Lord answered Job 
'out of the whirlwind.' " 

We have never received a spirit message out of a 
whirlwind. 

The remainder of this chapter and the whole of 
Chapter XLI. purports to be a message to Job from 
spirit Jehovah. Therefore, Job becomes a spirit 
medium. 

XLII., 1 : "Then Job answered the Lord and said :" 

Verse 2 : "I know that thou canst do everything and 
that no thought can be withheld from thee/' 

Job Controlled to "Utter Things Wonderful." 

XLIL, 3 : Job says : "Who is he that hideth council 
without knowledge? (i. e., Who gives Job the wisdom 
he utters?) Therefore have I uttered that I under- 
stand not things too wonderful for me, which I knew 
not. ,, 

Job Clairvoyant and Clairaudient. 

Verse 5 : "I have heard of thee by hearing of the 
ear ; but now mine eye seeth thee." 

This shows that Job had developed these two phases 
of mediumship. 

Job Repents. 

Verse 6 : "Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in 
dust and ashes." 

Again Jehovah Is Angry. 

Verse 7 : "And it was so, that after the Lord had 
spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz 
the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee," etc 



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Jehovah Restores Job's Property, But His Children 
Are Dead. 

Verse 10: "And the Lord turned the captivity of 
Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord 
gave Job twice as much as he had before." 

This was very good, but what of Job's children whom 
Jehovah put to death ? They were not restored to Job. 

Verse 11 : "All of Job's relatives and friends came 
and dined with him and comforted him, and every 
man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an 
earring of gold." 

Verse 12: "So the Lord blessed the latter end of 
Job more than his beginning : for he had fourteen thou- 
sand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand 
yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses." 

Where did Jehovah get all of these animals? Did 
he purchase them in the open market for Job ? 

Jehovah and Satan Seem Acquainted. 

Job XLII : There is little good to be derived from 
this chapter of "God's Word." Jehovah and the devil, 
or Satan, seem to be very familiar and well acquainted ; 
and there was quite a strife apparent between them. It 
would seem that Jehovah, as the Infinite Spirit of the 
universe, was anxious to convince Satan that He had 
one man whom he (the devil) could not tempt to do 
wrong. Could the Infinite think it worth while to 
cause a good man to suffer so much just to convince 
the senior master of ceremonies of hades that there 
was one man on God's side that Satan's temptations 
could not reach? 

Is it not also a little strange that God should select as 
the one immune to temptation such a hard-headed 
materialist as Job was when he began testing him ? 



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The only apparent good thing that came out of this 
ancient nightmare is the fact that Job became a spirit 
medium, and discarded his doctrines of materialism. 

The Book of Psalms. 

A collection of hymns used by the Hebrews in their 
religious services. 

Ministering Angels. 

Ps. XCL, 10 : "There shall no evil befall thee, neither 
shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling." 

Verse 1 1 : "For He shall give His angels charge 
over thee to keep thee in all thy ways." 

Verse 12 : "They shall bear thee up in their hands 
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." 

Like modern mediums' guides, they took care of their 
prophets. 

Dark Seance. 

XVII., 3 : "Thou hast proved mine heart ; thou hast 
visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt 
find nothing : I am purposed that my mouth shall not 
transgress." 

David says this to the Lord (the spirit). 

Materialism of David. 

Ps. XXX., 9 : "What profit is there in my blood, 
when I go down to the pit ? Shall the dust praise thee ? 
shall it declare thy truth ?" 

XXXIV., 7: "The angel of the Lord encampeth 
round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." 

XXXV. : David, throughout this psalm, asks his 
spirit guide, Jehovah, to bring calamities and curses on 
his enemies, and in the fifth verse he asks the angel 
of the Lord to chase them. 



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Verse 6: "Let their way be dark and slippery and 
let the angel of the Lord persecute them." 

Jehovah Has "Fellow Gods." 
XLV., 7 : "Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest 
wickedness ; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee 
with the oil of gladness above thy fellows." 

Gods Are Spirit Guides. 

Psalm XLVIII., 14: "For this God is our God for- 
ever and ever; he will be our guide even unto death." 

Jehovah was their spirit guide or God. They called 
their spirit helpers gods, and there were many of 
them, as has been shown heretofore. 

More Materialism. 

Psalm XLIX., 12: "Nevertheless, man being in 
honor abideth not ; he is like the beasts that perish." 

Verse 19: "He shall go to the generations of his 
fathers ; they shall never see light." 

Verse 20 : "Man that is in honor and understandeth 
not, is like the beasts that perish." 

No More Prophets. 

LXXIV., 9 : "We see not our signs : there is no 
more any prophet : neither is there among us any that 
knoweth how long." 

When they have no prophets (mediums) and get no 
more signs (tests) they feel that God has cast them 
off forever, as the first verse of this psalm states. 

More Materialism — Evil Angels Sent by Jehovah. 
LXXVIII., 49, says that Jehovah sent "evil angels 
among them." So there are bad angels! Angels are 
spirits. (See Bible Terms Defined, Index.) 



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Among All the Gods There Was but One Jehovah. 

LXXXIIL, 18: "That men may know that thou, 
whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high 
over all the earth." 

Psalm LXXXVL, 8: "Among the Gods there is 
none like unto thee, O Lord: neither are there any 
works like unto thy works." 

Added Materialism. 

Psalm LXXXVIIL, 5 : "Free among the dead, like 
the slain that lie in the grave whom thou rememberest 
no more : and they are cut off from thy hand." 

This was Heman, the Ezrahite, talking to the Lord, 
and it is strong materialism. 

Psalm LXXXIX., 47: "Remember how short my 
time is: wherefore (or why) hast thou made all men 
in vain?" 

Verse 48: "What man is he that liveth, and shall 
not see death ? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand 
of the grave? Selah." 

Man's Years Three Score and Ten. 

Psalm XC, Verse 10 : "The days of our years are 
three-score years and ten ; and if by reason of strength 
they be four-score years, yet is their strength labor 
and sorrow : for it is soon cut off, and we fly away." 

Give Angels Charge Over Thee. 

Psalm XCL, 1 1 : "For he shall give his angels charge 
over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." 

Verse 12 : "They shall bear thee up in their hands, 
lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." 

This is Spiritualism. The author can testify to the 
truth of the above two statements as his experiences 



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recorded in his book, "A Future Life Demonstrated," 
proves. 

More Materialism of David. 

Psalm CIIL, IS : "As for man, his days are as grass ; 
as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth." 

Verse 16: "For the wind passeth over it and it is 
gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more." 

Angels and Spirits Same. 

Psalm CIV., Verse 4 : "Who maketh his angels spir- 
its ; his ministers a flaming fire." 

So God's angels are spirits because he made them 
so. Should that not settle the question with Christians 
as to whether angels are spirits of mortals? 

Jehovah Will Not Repent. 
Psalm CX., 4 : David says : "The Lord hath sworn, 
and will not repent." 

Materialism of David. 

Psalm CXV., 17: "The dead praise not the Lord, 
neither any that go down into silence." 

Spiritualism contradicts this scripture, as spirits de- 
clare they have still more reason to worship God in the 
spirit world than we have in this world. 

Palmistry Indicated. 
Psalm CXIX., 109: "My soul is continually in my 
hands, yet do I not forget thy law." 

Jehovah Will Repent. 
Psalm CXXXV., Verse 14 : For the Lord will judge 
His people, and He will repent Himself concerning His 
servants. 



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Psalm CXXXIX., 7 : David says to spirit Jehovah : 
"Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall 
I flee from thy presence?" 

God Everywhere. 

Verse 8 : "If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : 
if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." 

David Decidedly Materialistic. 

Psalm CXLI V., 4 : "Man is like to vanity : his days 
are as a shadow that passeth away." 

CXLVL, 3 : "Put not your trust in princes, nor in 
the son of man, in whom there is no help." 

Verse 4 : "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his 
earth ; in that day his thoughts perish." 

The Book of Proverbs. — Palmistry Indicated. 
Chap. III., 16 : "Length of days is in her right hand ; 
and in her left hand riches and honor." 

Teachings of Spiritualism — Visions. 
XXIX., 18: "Where there is no vision, the people 
perish ; but he that keepth the law, happy is he." 

Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher. 

Supposed to have been written by King Solomon, 
whose materialism is most prominent. 

Materialism. 

Chap. III., Verse 18 : "I said in mine heart concern- 
ing the estate of the sons of men, that God might mani- 
fest them so that they might see that they themselves 
are beasts." 

Verse 19: "For that which befalleth the sons of 
men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : 



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as the one dieth so dieth the other; yea, they all have 
one breath : so that a man hath no pre-eminence over a 
beast ; for all is vanity." 

Verse 20 : "All go to one place : all are of the dust, 
and all turn to dust again." 

Verse 21 : "Who knoweth the spirit of man that 
goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth 
downward to the earth?" 

Chap. V., Verse 15 : "As he came forth of his 
mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, 
and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry 
away in his hand." 

Verse 16 : "And this also is a sore evil, that in all 
points as he came, so shall he go : and what profit hath 
he that hath labored for the wind?" 

More Materialism. 

Chap. VI., Verse 6: "Yea, though he (man) live a 
thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good ; 
do not all go to one place?" (the grave). 

Chap. IX., Verse 4: "For to him that is joined to 
all the living there is hope ; for a living dog is better than 
a dead lion." 

Verse 5 : "For the living know that they shall die : 
but the dead know not anything ; neither have they any 
more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten." 

Verse 6: "Also their love, and their hatred, and 
their envy, is now perished; neither have they any 
more a portion forever in any thing that is done under 
the sun." 

Verse 10: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do 
it with thy might ; for there is no work, nor device, nor 
knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave." 

Verse 1 1 : Solomon thinks all is governed by chance. 



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Did Solomon Believe in Telepathy? 

Eccl. X., Verse 20 : "Curse not the king, no not in 
thy thought : and curse not the rich in thy bed cham- 
ber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and 
that which hath wings shall tell the matter." 

Solomon's Views Changed — No More a Materialist. 

Solomon's supposed teachings, throughout this book 
of Ecclesiastes, is the rankest materialism until we 
reach Chapter XII. , 7 ; see Verses 12 and 13 also. Then 
an entire and positive change occurs. 

Was the closing of the book Ecclesiastes an inter- 
polation ? 

Solomon Writes Ecclesiastes After His Death. 

According to 1st Kings XL, 43 : Solomon was dead, 
and Christian chronology says it was in the year 984 
B. C. 

2nd Chron. IX., 30, records his death and the same 
chronology places the date of his death as 992 B. C. 
And it dates the writing of the Book of Ecclesiastes to 
977 B. C. So, according to the Book of Kings, Solomon 
had been dead seven years ; and according to the Book 
of Chronicles he had been dead fifteen years, when 
the Book of Ecclesiastes was written. Such conflicting 
statements are confusing. 

The Book of Isaiah — Jehovah Is Weary of Burnt 
Offerings — Isaiah Has a Vision. 

In Chapter I., Verses 1 to 15, Isaiah has a vision 
and Jehovah gives orders for no more vain oblations, 
no more burnt offerings, saying: He delights not in 
the blood of bullocks, lambs or he-goats, and changes 
his methods of worship and says : "To what purpose 
is the multitude of your sacrifice unto me?" 



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It would seem that the only purpose of these great 
sacrifices was to feed the Levite priesthood, as Jehovah 
received nothing out of them, and the priesthood got 
everything. 

No More War. 

Chapter II., Verse 4, says there shall be no more 
war. This looks as though Israel's spirit guide had 
become a reformer. 

Healers Poorly Paid. 

Chap. III., Verse 7, says : "In that day shall he 
swear saying, I will not be an healer, for in my house 
is neither bread nor clothing : make me not a ruler of 
the people." 

Many modern spiritual healers have found it so, 
though a great many of them have a large clientele, 
mostly Christians, whom they heal. 

Isaiah's Mediumship — He Has a Heavenly Vision. 

Chap. VI., Verses 1,2: Isaiah had a vision and saw 
the Lord and seraphim (seraphim is the plural ol 
seraph : an angel or spirit of love, in fact, a communi- 
cating spirit). (See Bible Dictionary, by William B. 
Smith, D. D.) 

Seraphim Produce Physical Phenomena. 

Verse 4 : "And the posts of the door moved at the 
voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with 
smoke." 

Was Isaiah a Fire Medium? 

Verse 6: Angels or spirits handle live coals, with 
tongs. 

Verse 7 : The spirit laid the live coal upon Isaiah's 
lips, and it purged his sin. 

Is this genuine witchcraft? 



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Isaiah Clairaudient. 
Verse 8 : "Also I heard the voice of the Lord." 
Isaiah was clairaudient, or this was a materialized 
voice. 

Spirit Communion. 

Verse 9: And he (the spirit) said, "Go and tell the 
people." 

This was a spirit communicating with a mortal me- 
dium. 

VII., 3 : The spirit of the Lord communicated with 
Isaiah again. 

Verse 10 : This same spirit spake again unto Ahaz. 

Verse 1 1 : He told him to ask for a sign or test. 

Supposed Prophecy of the Coming of Christ. 

Verse 14: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give 
you a sign. Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a 
son, and shall call his name Emanuel." 

This is claimed as a prophecy of Christ's coming. 

Isaiah VIII., 5 : The Lord spake to Isaiah again. 

Used to Oppose Spiritualism. 

Verse 19 : "And when they shall say unto you, Seek 
unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards 
that peep and that mutter ; should not a people seek unto 
their God (spirit guide), for the living to the dead?" 

This is admitting that some people have familiar 
spirits. And this is saying, when asked by others to go 
to those who have familiar spirits for communications 
with the dead, Why should not the people who have 
a god or spirit guide of their own, go to their own god 
or guide for communications ? This spirit of the Lord 
was jealous of the other familiar spirits, as is shown 
throughout the Scriptures. 



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Instead of disproving Spiritualism this passage shows 
plainly that there were familiar spirits in those days 
from whom people, through mediums, received word 
from the so-called dead. 

Chap. XIII. , Verse 6 : Isaiah predicts great destruc- 
tion from the Almighty. 

Verses 7 to 16 : Isaiah predicts terrible things, and 
the doom of Babylon. 

Jehovah's Dire Threats Against Israel. 

Verse 16 : The Lord or spirit of Jehovah, speaking 
through Isaiah, says : "Their children also shall be 
dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall 
be spoiled and their wives ravished." 

If this is the decree of the good God of this universe, 
is he a God of love, compassion and complacency? I 
prefer to believe that that communication partakes too 
much of the individuality of the medium Isaiah; but 
if it comes from a spirit it must be from one like 
Jehovah, the Egyptian warrior priest. 

Familiar Spirit Condemns Others. 

Isaiah XIX. : Jehovah was Isaiah's familiar spirit, 
and yet he and Jehovah both condemned those who had 
other familiar spirits, just as all Jehovah's mediums 
condemned those who had other familiar spirits than 
himself. 

Verse 1 : "The Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and 
shall come into Egypt," where he promises to do ter- 
rible things. Spirits do not ride swift clouds these days. 
They have better methods of transportation. 

Used to Oppose Spiritualism. 

Verse 3 : "And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the 
midst thereof; and they shall seek to the idols, and to 



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the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits 
and wizards." 

Verse 14 : "The Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit 
(a wicked or evil spirit) in the midst thereof : and they 
have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a 
drunken man staggereth in his vomit." 

Oh, what frightful language for "the word of God" ! 

Spirit Jehovah Orders Isaiah to Go Naked. 
Chap. XX., Verse 2: The spirit of the Lord told 
Isaiah to take off his clothes. "And he did so, walking 
naked and barefoot." 

Isaiah Walked Naked Three Years. 

Verse 3 : "And the Lord said, Like as my servant 
Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years 
for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia" ; 

Verse 4: "So shall the King of Assyria lead away 
the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, 
young and old, naked and barefoot, even, ... to the 
shame of Egypt." 

This is not Spiritualism of today. 

Is the Bible Needed for Our Faith and Practice? 

If a modern prophet's spirit guide should send his 
medium out naked, as Isaiah's spirit guide Jehovah sent 
him, the medium would land in jail in an hour and in 
the lunatic asylum in a day or two, just as Isaiah 
should have done. 

Isaiah Clairaudient. 
Chap. XXII., 14 : "And it was revealed in mine ears 
by the Lord of hosts." Then follows a communication 
from Isaiah's spirit guide. 



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Turns Earth Upside Down; Scatters Inhabitants 
Abroad. 

XXIV., 1 : "Behold the Lord maketh it waste, and 
turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the in- 
habitants thereof" 

Verse 3 : "The land shall be utterly emptied and 
utterly spoiled, for the Lord (the spirit) hath spoken it." 

The Lord Jehovah evidently had not learned that the 
earth revolves on its axis once every twenty-four hours. 

Bible Mediums and Priests Drunkards. 

XXVIIL, 7: "But they also have erred through 
wine, and through strong drink are out of the way : the 
priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, 
they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way 
through strong drink ; they err in vision, they stumble 
in judgment. " 

Verse 8: "For all tables are full of vomit and filthi- 
ness, so that there is no place clean." 

Did the worst opponents of Modern Spiritualism 
ever accuse its mediums of worse acts than Isaiah, the 
medium, accuses his brothers, the holy prophets of 
God? 

This is only one of the many arraignments of priests 
and prophets found in scripture.* 

Independent Spirit Voices. 
XXIX., Verse 4 : "And thou shalt be brought down, 
and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall 
be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be as one 
that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy 
speech shall whisper out of the dust." 



* See "False Prophets and Fraudulent Mediums of the Christian 
Bible," by Rev. E. W. Sprague. 



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Materialism of Hezekiah. 
XXXVIIL, 18 : "For the grave cannot praise thee ; 
death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into 
the pit cannot hope for the truth." 

Jehovah Tries to Prove He Is God. 
XLIIL, Verses 10 to 15 : The spirit Jehovah tries to 
prove to the Israelites that He is God, and tries to 
prove it by them, whom He claims have been witnesses 
of His doings. 

Jehovah the Savior. 
Verse 11 : He says: "I, even I, am the Lord; and 
beside me there is no savior." 

Jehovah Says He Is God. 

Verse 12: "Therefore ye are my witnesses, saith 
the Lord, that I am God." 

Chap. XLIV., 6 : He says : "Beside Me there is no 
God." 

Verse 8 says: "Is there a God beside Me? Yea, 
there is no God : I know not any" 

Chapter XLV., Verse 7, Jehovah says : "I form the 
light, and create darkness ; I make peace, and create 
evil. I, the Lord, do all these things." 

XLVL, Verse 9 : "Remember the former things of 
old : for I am God, and there is none else : I am God 
and there is none like me." 

XLIX., 26 : "I am thy savior and thy redeemer, the 
mighty one of Jacob." 

Isaiah Claims Mediumship. 
Chapter L., Verse 4: "The Lord God hath given 
me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how 
to speak a word in season to him that is weary : he 



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wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear 
to hear as the learned. ,, 

Mediums are frequently awakened from sleep to 
receive spirit messages, write poetry, etc., in these mod- 
ern days, as Isaiah says he was. 

Jehovah Speaks Through Isaiah. 
Isaiah LIX., 21 : "As for me, this is my covenant 
with them, saith the Lord, my spirit that is upon thee, 
and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not 
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy 
seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the 
Lord from henceforth and forever." 

Isaiah Explains His Phase of Mediumship. 

Chap. LXL, 21 : "The spirit of the Lord God is 
upon me ; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach 
good tidings unto the meek : he hath sent me to bind 
up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the cap- 
tives, and the opening of the prison to those that are 
bound." 

This is exactly what modern mediums can apply to 
themselves. Spirits through them are doing all of 
these things successfully today. 

Materialism. 
Chap. LXIV., 6: "But we are all as an unclean 
thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; 
and we all do fade as a leaf ; and our iniquities, like the 
wind, have taken us away." 

The Book of Jeremiah — Jeremiah Born a Medium — 
Receives a Spirit Message. 

Jer. L, 1, 2: The words of Jeremiah, "to whom the 
word of the Lord came." 



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Verse 4: "Then the word of the Lord came unto 
me, saying/' 

Verse 5 : "Before I formed thee, ... I knew thee ; 
and before thou earnest forth ... I sanctified thee; 
and I ordained thee a prophet (a medium) unto the 
nations." 

Jeremiah Lacked Confidence. 

Verse 6: "Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I 
cannot speak ; for I am a child." 

Jeremiah Will Be Inspired, Says the Spirit. 
Verse 7: "But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I 
am a child ; for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, 
and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak." 

Spirit Guide Will Protect His Medium. 

Verse 8: "Be not afraid of their faces, for I am 
with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord. 

Verse 9: "Then the Lord put forth his hand, and 
touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Be- 
hold, I have put My words in thy mouth." 

The Spirit Establishes Jeremiah's Mediumship. 

Verse 10: "See, I have this day set thee over the 
nations, and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to 
pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, 
and to plant." 

Jeremiah Clairvoyant. 

Jeremiah I., Verse 11 : "Moreover, the word of the 
Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou ?" 
That is, the spirit asked what he saw clairvoyantly, 
"And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree." 

Verse 12 : "Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast 
well seen ; for I will hasten my word to perform it." 



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Verse 13 : "And the word of the Lord (the spirit 
message) came unto me the second time, saying, What 
seest thou ? And I said I see a seething pot ; and the 
face thereof is toward the north." 

An Evil Prophecy. 

Verse 14: "Then the Lord said unto me, Out of 
the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhab- 
itants of the land." 

Thus far this chapter teaches Spiritualism. 

Jeremiah Says Jehovah Deceived the People. 

Jeremiah IV., Verse 10, says : "Then said I, Lord 
God! surely thou hast deceived this people and Jerusa- 
lem, saying, Ye shall have peace, whereas the sword 
reacheth unto the soul." 

If this was true was it not enough to justify the 
Israelites in worshiping other gods? Were they not 
justified in repudiating a deceiver? This was one of 
Jehovah's great prophets who accused Jehovah himself 
of being a deceiver. 

False Prophets or Fraudulent Mediums. 

According to scripture, there were genuine prophets, 
and there were those who pretended to be prophets and 
were not, and there were some who were prophets and 
yet "simulated" a great deal. 

The same is said of modern mediums, though as a 
class they are at least as honest as people of any other 
professions, including the clergy. There are fakers, 
or frauds, traveling up and down the country, claiming 
mediumship, who have none. The latter are not recog- 
nized by Spiritualists, who are fast driving them from 
the field. Christians claim the Bible prophets were 



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infallible in their work. Spiritualists know that me- 
diums are human, and that to err is human. 

Fraudulent Prophets and Priests. 

V., 30: "A wonderful and horrible thing is com- 
mitted in the land." 

Verse 31 : "The prophets prophesy falsely, and the 
priests bear rule by their means ; and my people love 
to have it so ; and what will ye do in the end thereof?" 
Jehovah says this. 

Wickedness of Prophets and Priests. 

VI., 13 : "For from the least of them even unto the 
greatest of them every one is given to covetousness ; 
and from the prophet even unto the priest every one 
dealeth falsely." 

Chapter VIII., Verse 10: "Therefore will I give 
their wives unto others, and their fields to them that 
shall inherit them: for every one, from the least even 
unto the greatest, is given to covetousness; from the 
prophet even unto the priest, every one dealeth falsely." 

One should keep in mind that fact that this is the 
Spirit Jehovah saying these terrible things. Would 
a just God punish these innocent wives? (See Chap. 
XIII, 13, 14, for more.) 

Prophets Prophesy Lies. 

Chapter XIV, Verse 14 : "Then the Lord said unto 
me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name : I sent 
them not, neither have I commanded them, neither 
spake unto them : they prophesy unto you a false vision 
and divination, and a thing of naught, and the deceit 
of their heart." 

Verse 15: "Therefore thus saith the Lord concern- 
ing the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent 



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them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be 
in this land. By sword and famine shall those prophets 
be consumed." 

Innocent Punished for Prophet's Wickedness. 

Verse 16 : "And the people to whom they prophesy 
shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem, because 
of the famine and the sword : and they shall have none 
to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their 
daughters : for I will pour their wickedness upon 
them. ,, 

Also see 18th verse. 

XV., 15 to 19: Jeremiah prays the Lord to remem- 
ber him, and says he did eat his words, and did not 
join the mockers, and was full of indignation. 

Jeremiah Questions Jehovah About His Lying. 

Verse 18: "Why is my pain perpetual and my 
wounds incurable, which refuseth to be healed? Wilt 
thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that 
fail?" 

Was Jehovah a lying spirit, as Jeremiah, his prophet, 
accused him of being? If he was, then he was not 
the God Almighty Christianity seeks to make the world 
believe. 

If Jeremiah lied about this matter, then he who was 
one of Jehovah's chosen prophets is not to be relied 
upon. 

Spirit Advice on Marriage. 

XVI., 1: "The word of the Lord (spirit message) 
came also unto me, saying :" 

Verse 2 : "Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither 
shalt thou have sons or daughters," etc. 



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Jehovah, His Spirit Guide, Deceived Him. 

Chap. XX., Verse 7 : "O Lord, thou hast deceived 
me, and I was deceived; thou art stronger than I, and 
hast prevailed : I am in derision daily, every one mock- 
eth me." 

In the forty years of our labors in Spiritualism we 
do not know of one single case where a spirit of modern 
times ever deceived his medium, as Jeremiah declares 
his spirit guide, Jehovah, deceived him. Are the spirits 
of modern times more honest and reliable than the 
spirit Jehovah whom the Christians worship as Al- 
mighty God? 

Jeremiah Cursed the Day He Was Born. 

Jeremiah XX., 14: "Cursed be the day wherein 
I was born : let not the day in which my mother bare 
me be blessed." 

Verse 15 : "Cursed be the man who brought tidings 
to my father saying, A man child is born unto thee; 
making him very glad." 

Is it not a pity that any spirit guide should cause his 
medium trouble that would make him curse the day 
he was born ? This, Jeremiah says, Jehovah did to him, 
and Jeremiah was one of Jehovah's great prophets of 
Israel. 

Chapter XXIII. is nearly all devoted to the con- 
demnation of the priests and prophets of Jerusalem. 

Verse 1 1 says : "For both prophet and priest are 
profane. Yea, in mine house have I found their wick- 
edness, saith the Lord!' 

Verse 14: "I have seen also in the prophets of 
Jerusalem an horrible thing : they commit adultery and 
walk in lies : they strengthen also the hands of evil- 
doers, they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the 
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah." 



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Pi ophets Speak Vision Out of Own Hearts. 

Verse 16 says : "They speak a vision of their own 
heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord." 

Verse 25 : The Lord says : "I have heard what the 
prophets said that prophesy lies in my name," etc. 

Can the Bible be infallible when its accredited 
prophets call each other liars, deceivers? One should 
read this whole chapter carefully. 

Deceitful Prophets. 

XXIII. , 26 : "How long shall this be in the heart of 
the prophets that prophesy lies ? Yea, they are prophets 
of the deceit of their own heart ;" 

Verse 27: "Which think to cause people to forget 
my name by their dreams, which they tell every man 
to his neighbor, as their fathers have forgotten my 
name for Baal." 

"Baal" was one of many other tribal gods of their 
day, of whom Jehovah was extremely jealous. 

Verse 28 : "The prophet that hath a dream, let him 
tell a dream ; and he that hath my word, let him speak 
my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? 
saith the Lord." 

Verse 30: "Therefore, behold, I am against the 
prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every 
one from his neighbor." 

Verse 32 : "Behold, I am against them that prophesy 
false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and 
cause my people to err by their lies, and by their light- 
ness ; yet I sent them not nor commanded them : there- 
fore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the 
Lord." 

Other Fraudulent Bible Mediums. 

Neh. VI., 10 : A false prophet goes to Nehemiah and 



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tries to frighten him into stopping the work of building 
the temple. 

Verse 12 says : "God had not sent him." 
In this work I have named but few of the many 
false prophets, or fraudulent mediums of the Bible.* 
Where so many were dishonest, how is one to tell what 
is the real word of God, since we cannot test them? 

Jer. XXIV., 2 : Jeremiah has a vision, seeing two 
baskets of figs, one basket of very good figs; and the 
other a basket of very "naughty figs, which could not 
be eaten, they were so very bad." Is there anything 
in Modern Spiritualism equaling this? 

Jehovah Promises to Repent. 
Chapter XXVI., Verses 7 to 13: The priests and 
prophets of Israel were planning to kill Jeremiah for 
these prophecies from the Lord against them, and Jere- 
miah's spirit guide, the Lord, promised to repent him 
of the evil he had done, if they would amend their ways 
and doings, and obey the voice of the Lord. 

Jehovah Drives the Israelites Into Slavery. 

XXVII., 8: "And it shall come to pass that the 
nation and kingdom which will not serve the same 
Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon, and that will not 
put his neck under the yoke of the King of Babylon, 
that nation will I punish, saith the Lord, with the sword, 
and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I 
have consumed them by my hand." How terribly 
unjust this seems. 

Jehovah Condemns His Own Prophets. 

Verse 9: "Therefore, hearken not ye to your 
prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, 



* See "False Prophets or Fraudulent Mediums of the Christian 
Bible," by Rev. E. W. Sprague. 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 185 

nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which 
speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the King of 
Babylon. 

Thus Jehovah, the God of Israel, places his chosen 
people in bondage. 

Verse 10: "For they prophesy a lie unto you, to 
remove you far from your land ; and that I should drive 
you out and ye should perish. ,, 

Verse 14 : This is repeated. 

Prophets Contradict Each Other. 

XVIII. , 9 to 17 : The mediums Jeremiah and Hana- 
niah, under the supposed influence of the Lord Jehovah, 
clash. One tells the Israelites that God says, Accept 
slavery under the King of Babylon; the other says, 
the Lord tells him they must not become slaves to the 
King of Babylon. 

Is this God of the Old Testament "infallible"? and 
is the Bible "God's word" inerrant and "without flaw" ? 

When different prophets of Jehovah, assuming to 
speak under his control, disagree and contradict each 
other, what can one believe regarding their infallibility ? 

Spirit Gives Advice on Marriage. 

Chapter XXIX., 4 to 7: The Lord tells them to 
take wives and multiply and increase in numbers. 

Would not Jeremiah be liable to arrest, fine and im- 
prisonment for fortune telling if this were enacted in 
Michigan today ? 

More Fraudulent Mediums of Israel. 

Verses 8, 9, condemn again their prophets and di- 
viners and say they prophesy falsely in the Lord's 
name and repeat the statement that He has not sent 



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them. So there were many deceptive mediums in those 
days. 

Jehovah Enslaves Israel Seventy Years. 
XXIX., 10: The Lord, through his medium Jere- 
miah, promises his chosen people that after they have 
been seventy years in captivity, He will visit them and 
cause them to return to freedom. Poor Israelites, they 
were freeholders in Egypt, but He who is supposed to 
have led them out of Egypt now sentences them to sev- 
enty years of real slavery. 

Prophets Bad — Ahab and Zedekiah. 

Verses 21, 22, 23 : Spirit Jehovah, speaking through 
the prophet (medium) Jeremiah, accuses the prophets 
Ahab and Zedekiah. 

Verse 23 says : "Because they have committed vil- 
lainy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their 
neighbors' wives, and have spoken lying words in my 
name, which I have not commanded them ; even I know, 
and am a witness, saith the Lord/' 

Jehovah Punishes Children for Fathers' Acts. 

Verses 31 and 32: The Lord declares He will pun- 
ish the children of two fraudulent mediums or prophets, 
because they (the fathers) prophesied unto you, and I 
sent them not. 

Is this Divine justice, or is it the edict of an unde- 
veloped or evil spirit? 

Or, what seems more likely to be, the edict of one 
fraudulent medium against another. The author is 
willing to believe that Jehovah was misrepresented by 
unreliable mediums, and did not order the Israelites 
enslaved seventy years, and the mediums assuming to 
represent him were either self -hypnotized, or were 



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downright frauds. We know of people in this life who 
do those things inadvertently and others wilfully, and 
we have never met with a spirit with such viciousness 
as is attributed to the Spirit Jehovah. 

Imprisoned Jeremiah for Practicing Mediumship. 

Chap. XXXVIL, Verse 15: They smote him and 
put him in prison. 

Verse 16 : They smote him and put him in a dun- 
geon. 

Verse 21 : They fed him a piece of bread daily until 
the bread was spent. 

Chap. XXXVIII., 6 : They let him down with cords 
into a "dungeon, w 7 here there was no water, but mire ; 
so Jeremiah sunk in the mire." 

The genuine mediums of those days were treated 
worse than in these times. 

Verses 10 to 13 : Jeremiah taken from the dungeon 
by order of King Zedekiah. 

Verse 14: King Zedekiah has a seance with the 
medium Jeremiah in secret, and Jeremiah's spirit guides 
told the King truly. 

XLIL, 4: Jeremiah prays unto the Lord God, "his 
spirit guide," and then tells them "that whatsoever thing 
the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you ; 
I will keep nothing back from you." 

Verse 7 : This prayer was answered after ten days' 
waiting, and Jeremiah received Jehovah's spirit mes- 
sage. 

Jehovah Repents Again. 

Verse 10 records the answer to this prayer, and the 
Lord says, "I repent me of the evil that I have done 
unto you" (the Israelites). 



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In this the God of Israel acknowledges he did evil 
to them. Does the Great God of heaven do evil ? 

What inconsistencies are found in the claims that 
Jehovah was Almighty God ! 

Jehovah Provoked to Wrath and Hate. 
Jer. XLIV., 4, 8. 

Jehovah a God of War. 

Jer., Chap. XLVIIL, Verse 1: "Thus saith the 
Lord." 

Verse 10 : "Cursed be he that keepeth back his sword 
from blood." 

Spiritism Not Spiritualism. 
The book of Jeremiah contains practically no Spir- 
itualism. It is full of Spiritism. Its teachings are not 
spiritual, though it is almost a continuous story of 
spirit communion. 

Book of Lamentations — Spirit Guides Leave 
Mediums. 

Lamentations II., 8, 9: "Her prophets (Israel's 
prophets) also find no vision from the Lord." 

Spirits sometimes leave modern mediums because 
they do wrong, and they lose their mediumship just as 
the prophets or mediums of Israel did. 

Chap. III. : Jeremiah accuses the Lord of treating 
him unjustly, and then asks him to curse his enemies. 

Breaks Prophet's Teeth. 

Verse 16: "He hath broken my teeth with gravel 
stones, He hath covered me with ashes." 

Verse 43 : "Thou hast covered with anger, and per- 
secuted us ; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied." 



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Priests and Prophets Shed Blood. 

Lamentations IV., 13 : "For the sins of her prophets, 
and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the 
blood of the just." 

Verse 14 : "They have wandered as blind men in 
the streets." 

That is, they have prophesied out of their own minds 
without receiving the spirit's message, imagining it, or 
wilfully assuming to get it from spirits. "They have 
polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not 
touch their garments." 

Guess Work of Mediums. 

This story shows the awful result of guess work on 
the part of mediums. There was much of it in those 
ancient days. 

The Book of Ezekiel — Ezekiel Develops Medium- 
ship — Saw Visions. 

Chap. I., Verse 1, says: "The heavens were opened 
and I saw visions of God." 

Verse 3 : "The word of the Lord came expressly 
unto Ezekiel, the priest, . . . and the hand of the Lord 
was upon him." 

Spirit Men With Wings. 

Verse S : He saw four spirit men, but soon his vision 
got badly mixed. 

Verse 6 : "And every one had four faces, and every 
one had four wings." Should not believers in this 
become meek in opposing clairvoyance ? 

Did this sudden development of clairvoyance over- 
whelm Ezekiel, causing him to lose his mind, or was 
it his great imagination that made him see such strange 
things ? 

This whole chapter is full of such insane nonsense. 



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A Spirit Controls Ezekiel. 

Chap. II., Verse 1 : A spirit tells him to stand upon 
his feet and he will speak to him. 

Verse 2 : "And the spirit entered into me when he 
spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard 
him that spake unto me." 

Ezekiel a Materializing Medium — Materialization of 
a Book and Spirit Hand. 

Verses 3 to 9 gives this spirit's message, and the 
9th and 10th verses say that a hand (a spirit hand) 
brought a book of lamentations and mourning and woe. 
So spirits materialized a hand and a book for Ezekiel. 
He is doing wonders for a newly developed medium. 

Levitation. 

III., 12: The spirit took him up, and he heard a 
voice. 

Verse 14 : "So the spirit lifted me up and took me 
away, and I went in bitterness (against his wishes) 
in the heat of my spirit : but the hand of the Lord was 
strong upon me." 

Verse 15 says he was carried to Tel-abib. (See also 
Ezek. VIII., 3, and Acts VIII., 39.) 

A Spirit Message* 
Verse 16 : Ezekiel gets another spirit message. 
Verse 22 : The hand of the Lord was upon him and 

he told him to go forth into the plain, for he wanted to 

talk to him. 

Verse 23 : He went and there he had another vision. 

Controlled Again. 
Verse 24 says: "Then the spirit entered into me, 
and set me upon my feet, and spake with me, and said 
unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house." 



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All this is spirit mediumship, the same as is expe- 
rienced among Spiritualists the world over today. 

Again Ezekiel Is Controlled. 

Ezek. VIII. , 1 : A spirit controls Ezekiel. 
Verses 2, 3 and 4 : He has a vision. 

Spirit Suspended Ezekiel by Lock of Hair. 

Levitation. 

Verse 3 : "And he put forth the form of a hand 
(a materialized spirit hand), and took me by a lock 
of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the 
earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions 
of God (under spirit influence) to Jerusalem," etc. 

Verse 4: "And, behold, the glory of the God of 
Israel was there (at Jerusalem), according to the vision 
that I saw in the plain." 

This was a fulfillment of the vision he saw in the 
plain. No modern medium was ever known to be lifted 
into the air and transported across the country by a 
spirit hand holding a lock of his hair. This is very 
wonderful spirit phenomena, if true. 

Jehovah's Continued Threatenings. 

The remainder of this chapter is a message from 
Spirit Jehovah ; the last verse threatens the poor Israel- 
ites with his "fury" and says He "will not spare nor 
pity." 

Was this a genuine spirit communication from Spirit 
Jehovah ? or was it the medium Ezekiel prophesying out 
of his own mind? 

Chapter IX. is another spirit communication. 

Verse 5 : "And to the others he (the Lord) said in 
mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and 
smite ; let not your eyes spare, neither have ye pity : 



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Verse 6: "Slay utterly old and young, both maids 
and little children, and women, but come not near any 
man upon whom is the mark." 

Verse 7 : "Defile the house, and fill the courts with 
the slain." 

And they did so. Oh, how terrible is Jehovah ! 

Chapter X. is a nightmare of visions. 

Visions and Levitation. 

Ezekiel XL, Verse 1 : "The spirit lifted me up and 
brought me unto the east gate of the Lord's house," etc. 

Verse 24: Ezekiel is taken up by the spirit and 
brought him in a vision unto Chaldea. 

Chapter XII., Verse 21 : "And the word of the Lord 
(another spirit communication) came to me, saying:" 

The message follows in which the spirit says their 
visions shall no more fail. In Verses 26 to 28 another 
spirit message is given him. 

Fraudulent and Incompetent Mediums. 

Ezekiel XIIL, 1 : "And the word of the Lord (a 
spirit message) came unto me saying." 

Verse 2 : "Son of man, prophesy against the prophets 
of Israel, that prophesy, and say thou unto them that 
prophesy out of their own hearts, hear ye the word of 
the Lord." 

Verse 3 : "Thus saith the Lord God, Woe unto the 
foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have 
seen nothing" (These are incompetent mediums.) 

Does the validity of the scriptures rest upon these 
unworthy mediums and false prophets of Israel? 

Jehovah Condemns Fraudulent and Foolish or 
Incompetent Mediums. 

Ezekiel XIIL, Verse 6 : "They have seen vanity and 
lying divination, saying, The Lord saith : and the Lord 



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hath not sent them : and they have made others to hope 
that they would confirm the word." 

Lying and Vain Mediums. 

Verse 7 : "Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have 
ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The 
Lord saith it; albeit I have not spoken?" 

Verse 8: "Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Be- 
cause ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore, 
behold, I am against you, saith the Lord God." 

False Prophets. 
Verse 9 : "And mine hand shall be upon the proph- 
ets that see vanity, and that divine lies : they shall not 
be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be 
written in the writing of the house of Israel, neither 
shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall 
know that I am the Lord God." 

Women Mediums Prophesy Out of Their Own 
Hearts. 

Ezekiel XIII., Verse 17 : Jehovah, speaking through 
Ezekiel, says: "Likewise thou son of man, set thy 
face against the daughters of thy people, which prophesy 
out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against 
them." 

Prophets Prophesy Lies, Says Jehovah. 

Verse 22 : "Because with lies ye have made the heart 
of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad, and 
strengthened the hands of the wicked ; that he should 
not return from his wicked way, by promising him 
life." 

Verse 23 : "Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, 
nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people 



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out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am the 
Lord." 

All this and much more Jehovah, a spirit, gave to 
Ezekiel through his mediumship. 

Spirit Readings Ezekiel Gave to Elders. 

Chapter XIV., Verses 1 to 12: Certain elders of 
Israel came to Ezekiel and he gave them a sitting or 
a reading. 

Verse 2 : "And the word of the Lord" (the spirit 
message) came to Ezekiel. 

Ezek. XIV., Verse 3 : Spirit Jehovah tells Ezekiel, 
the medium, that "these men have set up their idols in 
their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity 
before their face." He then asks Ezekiel, his medium, 
if he should be inquired of by them. 

Jehovah Refused to Communicate. 
Verse 4: Jehovah says, such persons coming and 
inquiring of him, he "will answer them according to 
the multitude of his idols." 

Jehovah Deceives His Mediums. 

After all this condemnation by Jehovah of his me- 
diums who practice fraud, "divine lies," "prophesy out 
of their own hearts," and "follow their own spirit and 
have spoken vanity," "and have seen nothing," "and 
the Lord hath not sent them," I say, after all this he 
takes the blame upon himself and still says he will 
punish the mediums. 

Verse 9 : He says : "And if the prophet be deceived 
when he hath spoken a thing, I, the Lord, have deceived 
that prophet; and I will stretch out my hand upon him, 
and will destroy him from the midst of my people 
Israel/' 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 195 

Is it divine justice to deceive a prophet and then 
destroy him for it ? 

Punishes Mediums, Likewise Their Clients. 

Verse 10 : "And they shall bear the punishment of 
their iniquity ; the punishment of the prophet shall be 
even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him." 

Why should Jehovah punish the prophet if He had 
deceived that prophet? Was the prophet who trusted 
in Jehovah to blame if Jehovah deceived him? Or was 
Jehovah to blame for deceiving him? In any other 
department of human endeavor Jehovah would be con- 
sidered the transgressor, but it is different in the 
Christian Bible. Children, wives, men and cattle were 
made to suffer even unto death because their superiors 
and possessors did wrong. 

Christians' God Puts Forth a Riddle. 

Ezekiel, Chapter XVII., 1 : "And the word of the 
Lord came unto me (Ezekiel), saying:" 

Verse 2 : "Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak 
a parable unto the house of Israel. " 

Verse 3 : "And say, Thus saith the Lord." 

Then follows what seems to be a simple riddle, that 
would hardly be considered worthy of notice if given 
by a mortal. It does not appear worthy of the God 
of this universe, to say the least. Jehovah and Samson 
are chief riddle makers of the Bible. (See Judges 
XIV., 8 to 20.) 

Another Message. 
Ezek. XX., Verse 2 : This is another spirit message : 
"Then came the word of the Lord unto me saying." 

Lord Refuses to Communicate or to Be Interviewed 
by the Elders of Israel. 
Verse 3 : "Son of man, speak unto the elders of 



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Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, 
Are ye come to enquire of me ? As I live, saith the Lord 
God, I will not be enquired of by you." 

Verse 31 : "For when ye offer your gifts, when ye 
make your sons to pass through the fire (Spiritualists 
never do that), ye pollute yourselves with all your 
idols (Spiritualists worship no idols), even unto this 
day; and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of 
Israel? as I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be 
enquired of by you." 

Impressional Mediumship. 

Verse 32 : "And that which cometh into your mind 
shall not be at all, that ye say," etc. 

Verse 35 : "I will bring you into the wilderness of 
the people, and there will I plead with you face to face." 

Priests and Prophets Bad. 

XXIL, 26 : "Her priests have violated my law, and 
have profaned mine holy things," etc. 

Verse 28 : Her prophets, "Divining lies" and "seeing 
vanity," "when the Lord hath not spoken." 

Spirit Speaks to Him, Ezekiel Says. 

XXIV., Verse 1 : "And the word of the Lord (a 
spirit message) came unto me, saying: Then follows 
the long spirit communication to the end of the chapter. 

Ezekiel XXIII. should not have been placed in the 
Bible. 

Jehovah Will Not Repent. 

Chapter XXIV., Verse 14: Jehovah says, "I, the 
Lord, have spoken it ; it shall come to pass, and I will 
do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither 
will I repent," etc. 



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Greatest Materializing Seance from Dry Bones — 
Ezekiel the Medium* 

Ezekiel XXXVII, Verse 1 : "The hand of the Lord 
was upon me and carried me out in the spirit of the 
Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley which 
was full of bones." 

Verse 2 : It says of these bones : "There were very 
many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry." 

Verse 3 : "And he said unto me, Son of man, can 
these bones live? and I answered, "Lord God, thou 
knowest." 

Verse 4: "Again He said unto me, Prophesy upon 
these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear 
the word of the Lord." 

Verse 5 : "Thus saith the Lord God unto these 
bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and 
you shall live." 

Verse 6 : "And I will lay sinews upon you, and will 
bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and 
put breath in you, and you shall live ; and ye shall know 
that I am the Lord." 

Materialized a Great Army. 

Verse 7: "So I prophesied as I was commanded: 
and as I prophesied there was a noise, and behold, a 
shaking and the bones came together, bone to his bone." 

Verse 8: "And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and 
the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them 
above ; but there was no breath in them." 

Verse 9: "Then said he (the spirit) unto me, 
Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and 
say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God, Come from 
the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, 
that they may live." 



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Verse 10: "So I prophesied as he commanded me, 
and the breath came into them, and they lived, and 
stood upon their feet, an exceeding great army." 

Christians who scoff at Spiritualists because they 
who believe in spirit materialization believe without 
having seen materialization, that this "exceeding great 
army" of bones was clothed with "sinews and flesh." 
They believe the spirit told Ezekiel to "say to the wind," 
"Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe 
upon these slain that they may live." That Ezekiel 
did so, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, "an 
exceeding great army." Christians believe this Bible 
story of materialization of spirits. Spiritualists do not 
believe it, though they do believe in spirit materializa- 
tion. They have never seen a whole army of spirits 
materialized at one time, nor have they seen old dry 
bones take on flesh, and life, and stand upon their feet. 
This is spirit materialization at wholesale. 

Again Ezekiel Is Controlled. 

XL., Verse 1 : Ezekiel says : "The hand of the Lord 
was upon me, and brought me thither." 

Verse 2 : "In the visions of God brought he me into 
the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high moun- 
tain, by which was as the frame of a city on the 
south." 

Clairvoyance — Ezekiel Saw a Spirit Man Who 
Carried Him Away. 

Verse 3 : "And he brought me thither, and, behold, 
there was a man, whose appearance was like the ap- 
pearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and 
a measuring reed ; and he stood in the gate." 



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This Dead Man Speaks to Him. 
Verse 4 : "And the man said unto me, Son of man, 
behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and 
set thine heart upon all that I shew thee: for to the 
intent that I might shew them unto thee, art thou 
brought hither : declare all that thou seest to the house 
of Israel." 

Spirit With a Measuring Rod. 

Verse 5 tells of a measuring rod in this spirit man's 
hand, with which he measured the building. 

Verse 6 : He begins measuring everything, and con- 
tinues measuring things to the end of this chapter. 

This Spirit Man Communicates. 

The reader should note the fact that this spirit con- 
trol was not Jehovah the Lord, but was a spirit man 
who is not reported to have controlled Ezekiel before. 
He is called "a man," and "the man/' which is one 
more of the many statements that spirits and angels 
are men, and that they return and communicate with 
mortals. 

Chap. XLI. contains twenty-six verses of added 
measuring. 

Chapters XLII. and XLIII. : This spirit man con- 
tinues measuring. 

Chapter XLIII., Verse 3, speaks of visions four 
times. 

Spirit mediums of today have visions. 

Levitation. 
Verse 5 : So the spirit took me up and brought me 
into the inner court. Was this not levitation by spirit 
power? 



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Verse 6: "And I heard him speaking unto me out 
of the house ; and the man stood by me." 

Priests Commanded Not to Shave Heads. 

Chap. XLIV., 20: "Neither shall they shave their 
heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall 
only poll their heads." 

Verse 21 : "Neither shall any priest drink wine when 
they enter into the inner court." 

Priests Must Not Marry Widows. 

Verse 22 : "Neither shall they take for their wives 
a widow, nor her that is put away : but they shall take 
maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, of a widow 
that had a priest before." (See also Lev. XXI., 10 
to IS.) 

Was This Fortune Telling? 

What would Christians say if a spirit of Modern 
Spiritualism should dictate such a message as this to 
his mediums? 

Spirit Jehovah dictated this message, telling whom 
priests should marry. Fortune tellers of today give 
advice on marriage. Was Ezekiel and his spirit control 
fortune tellers, according to this scripture ? 

Priests and Prophets of Jehovah Well Cared For 

Verse 30 : "And the first of all the first fruits of all 
things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your 
oblations, shall be the priests : ye shall also give unto 
the priest the first of your dough that he may cause the 
blessing to rest in thy house." 

Priests must have bread. 

Priests Must Not Eat That Which Dies of Itself 

Verse 31 : "The priests shall not eat of anything 



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that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or 
beast." 

Ezekiel XLIV. should be revised. 

The book of Ezekiel is almost one continuous spirit 
message, the spirit of Jehovah and another man's spirit 
communicating through the mediumship of Ezekiel, 
who has several different phases of mediumship. 

The Book of Daniel — Vegetarians — Daniel One; 

Also Would Not Drink Wine. 
Daniel, Chapter I., Verse 8: But Daniel purposed 
in his heart that he would not defile himself with the 
portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he 
drank : therefore he requested of the prince of eunuchs 
that he might not defile himself. 

Vegetarians' and Meat Eaters' Contest. 
Verses 11 to 16: Daniel had them put himself and 
three others on a vegetarian diet as a test against the 
meat eaters, and Daniel won the contest. 

Four Vegetarians Developed Mediumship. 

Verse 17: "As for these four children, God gave 
them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: 
and Daniel had understanding in all visions and 
dreams." 

Four Best Mediums. 

Verse 19: "And the king communed with them: 
and among them all was found none like Daniel, 
Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they 
before the king. 

Mediums Ten Times Better Than Magicians and 
Astrologers. 
Daniel, Chapter I., Verse 20: "And in all matters 
of wisdom and understanding, that the king enquired of 



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them, he found them ten times better than all the 
magicians and astrologer^ that were in all his realm." 
Spirit mediums of today are many times better than 
magicians and astrologers. 

Modern Mediums Also Vegetarians. 

Modern mediums are often led by spirits to abstain 
from eating meat and from drinking wine, while devel- 
oping, and afterwards. 

Spiritualists understand the benefit derived by ab- 
staining from meat eating and from strong drink while 
developing spirit mediumship. The author and his 
good wife, by advice of the spirit friends, ate no pork 
for twenty-eight years, and much of that time abstained 
entirely from eating meat of any kind. 

Dreams Troubled the King. 

Chapter II, Verse 1 : Nebuchadnezzar, the king, had 
dreams whereby his spirit was troubled. 

Verse 2 : "Then the king commanded to call the 
magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and 
the Chaldeans for to show the king his dreams. So 
they came and stood before the king." 

Verse 3 : The king tells them he had dreamed a 
dream that troubled him. 

King Puts Them Under Severe Test Conditions. 

Verse 4: The Chaldeans told him to tell them his 
dream. '■ -!W3^ 

Verse 5 : "The king answered and said to the Chal- 
deans, The thing is gone from me : if ye will not make 
known unto me the dream, with the interpretation 
thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses 
shall be made a dunghill :" 



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Verse 6 : "But if ye shew the dream, and the inter- 
pretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and 
rewards, and great honors: therefore, shew me the 
dream and the interpretatibn thereof." 

Verse 7 : "They answered again, and said, Let the 
king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the 
interpretation thereof." 

Tests — King Asks a Strong One. 

Verse 9: "But if ye will not make known unto me 
the dream, there is but one decree for you ; for ye have 
prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me 
till the time be changed : therefore, tell me the dream, 
and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpreta- 
tion thereof." 

Was the king reasonable in these demands ? 

Chaldeans Protest. 

Verse 10: "The Chaldeans answered before the 
king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that 
can shew the king's matter; therefore there is no king, 
Lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, 
or astrologer, or Chaldean." 

Verse 1 1 : "And it is a rare thing that the king re- 
quireth, and there is none other that can shew it before 
the king, except the gods (gods are spirits), whose 
dwelling is not with the flesh." 

Verse 12 : "For this cause the king was angry and 
very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise 
men of Babylon." 

Verse 13 : "And the decree went forth that the wise 
men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his 
fellows to be slain." 



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Verse 14 : "Then Daniel answered with council and 
wisdom to Arioch, the captain of the king's guard, 
which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon." 

Verse IS : "He answered and said to Arioch, the 
king's captain, Why is this decree so hasty from the 
king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel." 

Dream — Daniel Asks Time to Interpret. 

Verse 16: Daniel asked the king for time and he 
would shew him the interpretation. 

Verses 17 and 18: Daniel went and consulted with 
his three companions. 

A Dark Seance. 

The 19th verse says : "Then was the secret revealed 
unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed 
the God of heaven." 

Verses 20 to 24 : Daniel praises the Lord for reveal- 
ing this thing to him, and in the 24th verse, he tells 
Arioch, the king's captain, not to destroy the wise men 
of Babylon, but to take him before the king and he 
would interpret his dream. 

Verse 25 : He took Daniel before the king and he 
explained that he would interpret his dream. 

Verse 26 : The king asked Daniel if he could inter- 
pret the dream. 

Verse 27 : "Daniel answered in the presence of the 
king and said: The secret which the king hath de- 
manded, cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the 
magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;" 

Daniel Interprets His Dream. 
Verse 28: "But there is a God in heaven (spirit 
guides are called gods throughout the scriptures), that 
revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the King 



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Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy 
dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are 
these :" 

Daniel Teaches Mental Mediumship. 
Verse 29 : "As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came 
into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass 
hereafter ; and he that revealeth secrets maketh known 
to thee what shall come to pass." 

Daniel Gives Himself No Credit. 

Verse 30 : "But as for me, this secret is not revealed 
to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, 
but for their sakes that shall know the interpretation to 
the king and that thou mightest know the thoughts of 
thy heart." 
Daniel Tells King His Dream, Then Interprets It. 

Verses 31 to 46: After telling the king his dream, 
he says : "This is the dream ; and we will tell the in- 
terpretation thereof before the king." 

Then follows his interpretation of this not wonderful 
dream. 

Verse 46: "Then the King Nebuchadnezzar fell 
upon his face, and worshiped Daniel, and commanded 
that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto 
him." 

Following this, the king gave Daniel presents and 
made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, 
and Daniel saw that his three companions were well 
provided for. 

Such has been the life of mediums of every age. 
At times they are persecuted, and at times they are 
worshiped. This is only one of the many spirit tests 
and revelations of scripture given through spirit me- 
diums of that day. 



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Nebuchadnezzar an Arbitrary Idolater. 
Dan. III., Verses 1 to 6 : Nebuchadnezzar made an 
image of gold, and commanded all people, nations and 
languages to fall down and worship this golden image. 

Threatens to Burn Disobedient. 
Verse 6 : "And whoso f alleth not down and worship- 
eth, shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burn- 
ing fiery fufnace." 

Fire Mediums. 

The remainder of this chapter tells that Shadrach, 

Meshach and Abed-Nego, who would not bow down 
and worship Nebuchadnezzar's god of gold, were cast 
into the fiery furnace that was heated seven times as 
hot as "it was wont to be heated." 

Verse 21 says they were bound with their clothes on 
and cast into the fiery furnace. 

Verse 22 says that the furnace was so "exceeding 
hot the flames of the fire slew the men who put these 
men in the fire." 

Verse 23 : The three men fell down bound into the 
midst of the burning fiery furnace. 

An Angel Appears in the Fire With Them. 

Verse 25 : The king looked into the furnace and 
saw "four men walking in the midst of the fire and 
they have no hurt." One of them was an angel. Angels 
are spirits of men. 

Verse 26 : The king told them to come out of the 
fire and they came out. 

Verse 27 says : "The king's councillors being gath- 
ered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the 
fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, 
neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire 
had passed on them." 



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Some people who believe this story is God's infallible 
truth, may think Spiritualists a bit weak-minded to 
believe spirits can return to mortals. 

Spirit Phenomena Convert the King. 

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said : 

"Blessed be the God of Shadrach (Sha'drak), Me- 
shach (Me'shak), and Abed-nego (A-bed'-ne-go), who 
hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that 
trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and 
yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor 
worship any god except their own God." 

Verse 29 : The king says : "Therefore I make a 
decree, That every people, nation, and language, which 
speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, 
Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut to pieces, and 
their houses shall be made a dunghill ; because there is 
no other god (spirit guide) that can deliver after this 
sort." 

D. D. Homes' Fire Mediumship. 

Verse 30 : "Then the king promoted Shadrach, Me- 
shach and Abed-nego in the province of Babylon." 

Here is another case of spirit phenomena converting 
the hard-headed unbeliever. An angel or spirit was 
present and figured in these phenomena just as there 
was with Daniel D. Homes, the wonderful medium, 
when spirits controlled him to carry about the room 
his two hands full of live coals, and to lay his head in 
a bed of live coals without singeing a single hair of his 
head, as testified to by titled men and other leading 
people of Europe and America. Such phenomena are 
from God if recorded in scripture, but are of the devil 
when produced in Modern Spiritualist seances, say 
some Christians. 



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Spirit Voice Comes to King. 
Daniel IV., 31 : "While the word was in the king's 
mouth, there fell a voice from heaven saying, O King 
Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken : the kingdom is 
departed from thee." 

Dream Interpreted by Daniel. 
Verse 32: Daniel interprets a second dream of 
King Nebuchadnezzar, which was a bad one for the 
king, and was fulfilled in the same hour as follows : 

Nebuchadnezzar Insane ; Eats Grass. 
Verse 33 : The same hour was the thing fulfilled 
upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men, 
and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with 
the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like 
eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws." 

Recovers His Mind. 

Verse 34 : "At the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnez- 
zar, lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine under- 
standing returned unto me; and I blessed the Most 
High." 

Verse 36: "His reason returned unto him, and he 
was established in his kingdom." 

Spirit Hand Writing on the Wall at Belshazzar's 

Feast. 

Chap. V., Verse 1 : "Belshazzar, the king, made a 
great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine 
before the thousand." 

Verse 2 : "Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, com- 
manded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his 
father, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken out of the temple 
which was in Jerusalem ; that the king, and his princes, 
his wives, and his concubines might drink therein." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 209 

Idolatry of Belshazzar, King of Babylon. 

Verse 3 : They brought them and these people drank 
out of them. 

Verse 4: "They drank wine, and praised the gods 
of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and 
of stone." 

Materialized Hand at Belshazzar's Feast. 

Verse 5 : "In the same hour came forth fingers of a 
man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick 
upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and 
the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." 

This was spirit phenomena such as has occurred in 
the writer's parlor, and for that reason he must believe 
it true. 

Spirit Phenomena Frightens the King. 
Verse 6 : "Then the king's countenance was changed, 
and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his 
loins were loosed and his knees smote one against 
another." 

Reward for Reading Spirit Writing. 

Verse 7: "The king cried aloud to bring in the 
astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And 
the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, 
whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the 
interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, 
and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be 
the third ruler in the kingdom." 

Verse 8: "Then came in all the king's wise men; 
but they could not read the writing, nor make known 
to the king the interpretation thereof." 

Verse 9 : "The king was troubled and his lords were 
astonied" ( astonished ) . 



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Verses 11 and 12: The queen told him of a man in 
whom was the spirit of the holy gods (good spirits), 
and she named Daniel, who had interpreted the old 
king's dream. 

Handwriting on Wall Interpreted. 

Verses 24 to 31 : Daniel interprets the writing on 
the wall. 

Verse 25 : "And this is the writing that was written, 
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN." 

Verse 26: "This is the interpretation of the thing: 
MENE: God hath numbered thy kingdom and fin- 
ished it." 

Verse 27 : "TEKEL : Thou art weighed in balances 
and art found wanting." 

Verse 28 : "PERES : Thy kingdom is divided, and 
given to the Medes and the Persians." 

Verse 29 : "Then commanded Belshazzar, and they 
clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold 
about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning 
him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom." 

Verse 30: "That night was the king slain." 

VI. , 3 : "Then this Daniel was preferred above 
the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit 
was in him (i. e., he had a good spirit guide or control) ; 
and the king thought to set him over the whole realm." 

Verses 4 to 10 : The presidents and princes got to- 
gether, because of jealousy of Daniel, no doubt, and 
arranged "to establish a royal statute," "that whosoever 
shall ask a petition of (or pray to) any god or man for 
thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the 
den of lions," and King Darius signed the decree. 

What a lot of freak kings there were in Bible times ! 



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Verse 10 : "When Daniel knew that the writing was 
signed, he went into his house ; and his windows being 
open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon 
his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave 
thanks before his God, as he had aforetime." 

Verses 11 to 15: These men saw Daniel praying, 
went to the king, had him arrested and cast in the lions' 
den. 

Daniel in the Lion's Den. 

Verse 16: "Then the king commanded and they 
brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. 
Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God 
whom thou servest continually, He will deliver thee." 

Verse 18 : The king didn't sleep all night. 

Verse 19: He went to the lions early in the morn- 
ing. He was anxious to learn whether Daniel was still 
alive. 

Verse 20 : "And when he came to the den, he cried 
with a lamentable voice unto Daniel ; and the king spake 
and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, 
is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to 
deliver thee from the lions ?" 

Verse 22 : Daniel answers : "My God hath sent his 
angel (spirit) and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they 
have not hurt me : forasmuch as before him innocency 
was found in me ; and also before thee, O king, have I 
done no hurt." 

One believing this may be counted a Spiritualist 

Verse 23 : "Then was the king exceeding glad for 
him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up 
out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the 
den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, be- 
cause he believed in God." 



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It is plain to be seen, because Daniel was a medium, 
"The angel (or spirit) shut the lions' mouths/' Daniel 
said. 

Verse 24: "And the king commanded, and they 
brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they 
cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and 
their wives (they punished the innocent as usual) ; and 
the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their 
bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of 
the den." 

Comment is unnecessary here. 

Spirit Phenomena Convert Darius. 

Verse 26 : King Darius was fully converted and is- 
sued a decree that all his people should tremble and 
fear the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and 
steadfast forever. 

King Darius was another convert made by spirits. 

Daniel Clairvoyant and Clairaudient. 

Daniel, Chap. VIII., Verse 2: Daniel says three 
times that he had a vision, and in the 13th verse he 
was clairaudient ; he says he heard one saint (a spirit) 
speaking to another saint. He relates their conversa- 
tion. 

A Spirit Man Appears and Talks. 

The 15th, 16th and 17th verses tell of the "appear- 
ance of a man," — a man's voice was heard. 

Daniel in a Trance. 

Verse 18 : Daniel "was in a deep sleep" (in a trance) 
while the spirit was speaking with him, and the spirit 
man controlled him and stood him on his feet. 



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Spirit Man Interprets Vision. 

Verses 19 to 26: The spirit man interpreted the 
symbolic vision Daniel had, as told in the first fourteen 
verses of this chapter. 

Verse 27: "And I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick 
certain days : afterward I rose up and did the king's 
business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none 
understood the vision. ,, 

How exactly like the experiences of modern me- 
diums some of these were. 

Man Gabriel — A Long Message from His Spirit. 

Daniel IX., Verses 21 and 22 : The spirit man 
Gabriel came to Daniel again and said : I am come to 
show thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore 
understand the matter and consider the vision." 

This is Spiritualism and he who believes it is a Spir- 
itualist, and he who does not believe it is an infidel, not 
believing the Bible. 

Daniel Has Another Vision. 

Chap. X., Verse 1 : "In the third year of Cyrus, King 
of Persia, a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose 
name was called Belteshazzar ; and the king was true, 
but the time was long; and he understood the thing, 
and had understanding of the vision." 

Often prophecies of modern mediums are longer in 
coming true than they expect, though the time may not 
have been set. Just as in this case with Daniel. 

Verse 2: "In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning 
three full weeks." 

Verse 3 : "I ate no pleasant bread, neither came 
flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself 
at all, till three full weeks were fulfilled." 



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Another Spirit Man Appears. 

Verse 5 : "Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, 
and, behold, a certain man (spirit) clothed in linen, 
whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz." 

Verse 6 continues the description of this spirit man. 

Daniel Only One Who Saw the Vision. 

Verse 7 : "And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision : for 
the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a 
great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide 
themselves." 

This Was a "Great Vision." 

Verse 8 : "Therefore I was left alone, and saw this 
great vision, and there remained no strength in me: 
for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, 
and I retained no strength." 

These are sometimes the experiences of modern me- 
diums after being controlled by spirits, especially when 
they are undergoing development. 

Daniel Entranced Again. 

Verse 9: "Yet heard I the voice of his words: and 
when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a 
deep sleep (entranced) on my face, and my face 
toward the ground." 

If this is true, then spirits talk to mortals and mes- 
sages come from the dead. 

A Spirit Man Strengthens Daniel. 

Verse 19: The spirit man speaks to Daniel again, 
and strengthens him, and Daniel said to him, "Let my 
Lord speak, for thou hast strengthened me." 

This book is one of the most reasonable books of 
the Old Testament. Yet parts of it might be improved. 



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A Spirit Lifts Daniel Up. 

Verse 10: "And, behold, an hand touched me (a 
spirit hand), which set me upon my knees and upon 
the palm of my hands :" 

This Spirit Man Speaks to Daniel. 

Verse 1 1 : "And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man 
greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto 
thee, and stand upright : for unto thee am I now sent. 
And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood 
trembling. ,, 

When spirits influence or control one, it is often the 
case that they feel weak and tremble, though it does 
not harm them. 

Verses 12 to 15: This spirit man talks kindly and 
lovingly to Daniel. 

Daniel Again Entranced. 

Verse 15: Daniel was evidently entranced by this 
spirit "man." 

Daniel an Inspirational Speaker. 

Verse 16: A spirit similar to the sons of men 
touched his lips with inspiration and he opened his 
mouth and spake. 

Verse 17 : This talking took his strength. 

Verse 18: Another spirit man strengthened him. 
Very often such things occur in Spiritualism. 

Mediumship of Daniel Wonderful. 

Daniel was a good medium, according to scripture. 
He was often in a trance. He was clairvoyant, clair- 
andient, and had visions. He interpreted dreams, fore- 
told the future, tamed the lions, withstood the fiery 
furnace. He interpreted the spirit writing on the wall, 
and was an inspirational speaker. 



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The Book of Hosea — Hosea a Medium. 

Aside from its teachings of spirit return and spirit 
mediumship, there is nothing in the Book of Hosea 
that is spiritual or elevating. 

Hosea L, 2 : The Lord speaks to Hosea. 

In Verses 4, 6, and 9, Spirit Jehovah names three 
babes. 

Israelites Too Numerous to Number. 
Verse 10 : "Yet the number of the children of Israel 
shall be as the sands of the sea, which cannot be meas- 
ured or numbered." 

The Prophet Is a Fool, Says Hosea, the Prophet. 

Chapter IX., Verse 7 : He says : "The prophet is a 
fool, the spiritual man is mad" (insane). 

Were not these chosen people of God a queer lot? 

Not Spiritualism. 
Hosea III., Verse 1: The Lord (Spirit Jehovah) 
spoke to Hosea, told him to "love a woman beloved of 
her friend, yet an adulteress." 

Hosea Buys This Woman. 

Verse 2: "So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces 
of silver, and for an homer of barley, and a half homer 
of barley." 

Was this the market price of such women in that 
early day? 

No spirit of modern times ever ordered a medium to 
buy an outcast woman. The Bible would be improved 
by eliminating the entire Book of Hosea. 

XII., 2: "The Lord hath also a controversy with 
Judah." 



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Verse 4: "Yea, he had power over the angel, and 
prevailed; he wept and made supplication unto him: 
he found him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us." 

Verse 10 : "I have also spoken by the prophets, and 
have multiplied visions and used similitudes, by the 
ministry of the prophets." 

Chap. XIII. is a communication from Spirit Jehovah. 
It is full of threatenings, and in the 16th verse he con- 
demns innocent infants and women to terrible deaths. 
May heaven help those who believe that this is the work 
of the good God of heaven. 

The Book of Joel — Coming of Spiritualism Foretold 

by Joel. 

Chapter L, Verse 28, says: "And it shall come to 
pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all 
flesh ; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 
your old men shall dream dreams, your young men 
shall see visions." 

Verse 29: "And also upon the servants and upon 
the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit." 

This is all the Spiritualism there is in the three 
chapters of the Book of Joel. 

The Book of Amos — Jehovah Reveals His Secrets. 

Amos III., 7, says: "Surely the Lord God will do 
nothing, but He revealeth His secrets unto His servants 
the prophets." 

Amos Becomes a Medium. 

VII., 15 : "And the Lord took me as I followed the 
flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go prophesy unto 
my people Israel." 

Spirits today take mediumistic persons from the 
farms, shops, etc., and develop their spiritual gifts or 



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faculties, and they go and prophesy (prophecy is more 
than foretelling the future), as did these Bible mediums. 

Book of Obediah. 

Obediah's one chapter tells of his vision, which is 
a kind of prophecy ; but seems to be of little importance 
to the people of this day. 

The Book of Jonah — Jonah a Medium; Receives a 
Spirit Message. 

Chap. I., 1 : "The word of the Lord (a spirit mes- 
sage) came unto Jonah," etc. 

Verse 3 : "Jonah fled from the presence of the Lord, 
or spirit, went to Joppa, took a ship going to Tarshish, 
paid his fare." 

Cast Lots to Find Who Was the Cause of the Storm. 

Verse 7 : "So the lot fell upon Jonah." 
Verse 8 : "Then said they unto him, tell us, we pray 
thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us: What is 
thine occupation? and whence comest thou? What is 
thy country? and of what people art thou?" 

Lord Talks to a Fish. 

Chap. II., 10, says : "And the Lord (Spirit Jehovah) 
spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the 
dry land." 

Are modern spirit phenomena "puerile" ? 

Chap. III., 10 : Israel's God again repents. 

The Book of Micah — Micah a Medium. 
Chap. I., Verse 1 : The word of the Lord (a spirit 
message) came to Micah, . . . "which he saw concern- 
ing Samaria and Jerusalem." 



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The spirit of the Lord in His message to Micah 
condemns the poor Israelites and the cities of Jerusa- 
lem and Samaria. It is a message of woe, of accusa- 
tion and pessimism ; a message of war and a prophecy 
of distress. 

No Visions or Answer of God. 

Chap. III., Verse 6, says : "Therefore, night shall be 
unto you, that ye shall not have a vision ; and it shall 
be dark unto you that ye shall not divine (foretell the 
future), and the sun shall go down over the prophets, 
and the day shall be dark unto them." 

Verse 7 : "Then shall the seers be ashamed and the 
diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their 
lips ; for there is no answer of God! 3 

This shows that there was no communication with 
the God of Israel other than through "diviners," 
"seers," or "prophets"; and seers and prophets are 
always mediums. 

All messages from Jehovah came through mediums. 

Controlled by the Spirit. 

The 8th verse says : "But truly I am full of power 
by the spirit of the Lord (that is, he is inspired or con- 
trolled by this spirit), and of judgment, and of might, 
to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel 
his sin." 

None should question this statement after reading 
all of Micah. 

Priests Teach for Hire ; Prophets Divine for Money. 
Micah III., 11: "The heads thereof judge for re- 
ward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the 
prophets thereof divine for money ; yet will they lean 
upon the Lord." 



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Book of Nahum. 

Chapter L, Verse 1, speaks of Nahum's vision. 

Again Israel's God Is Jealous. 

Verse 2 : "God is jealous, and the Lord revenge th ; 
the Lord revengeth, and is furious ; the Lord will take 
vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath 
for his enemies." 

This is not "Our Father," the God of Jesus, and we 
have never come in contact with a human spirit pos- 
sessed of so many mortal weaknesses as this God of 
Israel is said in this verse to possess. 

Prophecy of the Automobile. 

Nahum II., 4: "The chariots shall rage in the 
streets, they shall jostle one another in the broad ways : 
they shall seem like torches, they shall run like 
lightning." 

If this is not a prophecy of the automobile, of what 
is it a prophecy ? 

Book of Habakkuk — Spirit Gives a Message. 
Chap. II., 2 : "And the Lord answered me, and said, 
Write the vision, and make it plain upon the tables, 
that he may run that readeth it." 

A Vision to Speak. 
Verse 3 : "For the vision is yet for an appointed 
time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie : though 
it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come ; it will 
not tarry." 

Jehovah in Anger. 
Chapter III., 11, 12: He predicts judgments and 
declares that "the sun and moon stood still in their 



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habitation," and he says that his Lord "didst thresh 
the heathen in anger." 

This prophet, like all the rest of them, is pessimistic 
and threatens the people with terrible calamities in the 
last of his book. 

Book of Zephaniah — Zephaniah a Medium; He 

Receives a Spirit Message. 
Chapter I., Verse 1 : "The word of the Lord (spirit 
message) came unto Zephaniah, the son of Cushi," etc. 

Jehovah's Terrible Spirit Message. 
Verse 2: "I will utterly consume all things from 
off the land, saith the Lord." (See also Verses 3, 4, 
14, 15; 111,4, 14.) 

The Book of Haggai — Haggai a Medium — A 

Message to Haggai. 
Chap. I, Verse 1, says : "The word of the Lord 
came to Haggai." 

The "word of the Lord" is always a spirit message. 
It can be nothing more and nothing less. 

The two chapters of the Book of Haggai consist 
principally in a spirit message from Jehovah. 

Haggai the Lord's Messenger. 
Verse 13 : "Then spake Haggai, the Lord's messen- 
ger, in the Lord's message unto the people, saying, I 
am with you." 

The Book of Zechariah — Zechariah a Medium; 
Receives a Spirit Message. 

Chapter I, Verse 1 : "The word of the Lord" came 
to Zechariah. 

Verse 2 : "The Lord hath been sore displeased with 
your fathers." 



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Verse 3 : "Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith 
the Lord of hosts." 

Verse 7: "The word of the Lord came to Zecha- 
riah." (This was a spirit message.) 

Verse 8 : This communicating spirit saw "by night" 
"a man riding upon a red horse," "and behind him 
were there red horses speckled and white." 

Verse 9 : "Then said I, O my Lord, what are these ? 
And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I 
will shew thee what these be." 

Spirit Called by Different Names. 
In this chapter the spirit who talked with him is 
called "angel," "Lord," "Angel of the Lord," "My 
Lord," "The angel," and "Man." (See 8th and 9th 
verses. In Chap. II., also. 

Jehovah Indignant Seventy Years. 

Verse 12 : "Then the angel of the Lord answered 
and said: O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not 
have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, 
against which thou hast had indignation these three 
score and ten years ?" 

So the Lord was indignant toward Israel for seventy 
years. Could he enjoy the harmonies of heaven while 
in such a mood as that for seventy years ? 

Verse 13 : "And the Lord answered the angel that 
talked with me with good words and comfortable 
words." 

Jehovah Again Jealous. 

Verse 14 : "The Lord of hosts is jealous . . . with a 
great jealousy." 

Does jealousy enter heaven, a supposed state of 
perfect happiness? 



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Verse 15 : He is "displeased." 

The remainder of this chapter shows that Zechariah 
was a symbol medium, seeing four horns, and four car- 
penters, and the angel tried to interpret the meaning 
of these symbols. 

This spirit is seen by this medium, and the spirit 
gives him a message. 

Dead Man Returns After Nine Hundred Years. 

Chapter III., Verse 1 : "And he shewed me Joshua." 
Joshua had been dead nine hundred and seven years, 

according to the Christians' Bible Chronology. 

So this medium saw the spirit of this long-time dead 

man, and we ask the Christian doubter again : Do the 

dead return? 

Zechariah Has a Wonderful Vision. 

Zech. III., 1 : Zechariah sees the dead Joshua, the 
angel of the Lord, and Satan. 

Verse 2 : The Lord talked to Satan and Zechariah 
heard him. So this medium was both clairvoyant and 
clairaudient. 

Spirit Joshua Clothed in Filthy Garments. 

Verse 3 : "Now Joshua (after more than nine hun- 
dred years in spirit life) was clothed with filthy gar- 
ments, and stood before the angel." 

It would seem that Joshua, the great Joshua, who 
came out of Egypt with the Israelites and who was 
with them, surviving the forty years of deprivation in 
the wilderness ; that Moses solemnly and definitely 
gave authority in connection with Eleazar, the priest, 
over the people. "And after this was done God Him- 
self gave Joshua a charge by the mouth of the dying 
lawgiver." (Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, subject 



224 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Joshua.) I say it would seem strange that the great 
Joshua, who had done so much to help Jehovah, and 
after nine hundred years in spirit life, should be clothed 
"with filthy garments." 

Zech. III., 4, 5 : And at the command of this angel 
of the Lord, the others removed Joshua's "filthy gar- 
ments, gave him a new suit of clothes and set a fair 
mitre upon his head." 

Verse 6 : "And the angel of the Lord protested unto 
Joshua, saying," 

Verse 7 : "Thus saith the Lord of hosts." 

Then follows some strange talk, a part of which 
seems to be giving the spirits charge over the material 
affairs of Israel. 

An Angel or Spirit Talked to Zechariah. 

Chap. IV., Verse 1, says : "And the angel that talked 
with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is 
wakened out of his sleep." 

Verse 2 tells what the angel said to him. 

Verse 6 says: "Then he answered and spake unto 
me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerub- 
babel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my 

p A Symbol Medium. 

Chapter V., Verse 1 : This medium sees more sym- 
bols, and the angel that talked with him explained (?) 
their significance. He saw a "flying roll," twenty 
cubits long and ten cubits in breadth. (A cubit is sup- 
posed to be 18 to 22 inches, or the length of a man's 
forearm ; sometimes the width of the hand added.) An 
"ephah" (measure) was shown by the spirit, and a 
"talent of lead" ("greatest weight of the Hebrews"). 
And a woman that sat in the midst of the ephah (meas- 
ure) ; but greatest of all the symbols was the following: 



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Verse 9 : "Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, 
and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind 
was in their wings ; for they had wings like the wings 
of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between the 
earth and the heaven." 

Modern mediums, so far as known, never see spirit 
women with wings of a stork. 

More Symbols But Unexplained. 

Zech. VI., 1, 2, 3 : Zechariah has another vision of 
"chariots," "red horses," "mountains of brass," "black 
horses," "white horses," "grizzled and bay horses." 

Again the Angel Talks to Him. 

Verse 4 : "Then I answered and said unto the angel 
that talked with me, What are these, my Lord?" 

Following this is the explanation that does not ex- 
plain. No one knows what these symbols mean when 
he has finished reading the explanation. 

Such nonsense as these symbolic visions become, be- 
cause of the explanation that does not explain, make 
them utterly valueless. 

There is nothing in modern spirit communication so 
utterly useless as this whole account of this "prophet's" 
visions. Yet the manner in which the messages and 
visions are given is proof of spirit return, spirit com- 
munication, clairvoyance and clairaudience. 

The Book of Malachi— The Old Testament's Last 
Prophecy. 
Malachi IV., Verse 5, says : "Behold, I will send you 
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and 
dreadful day of the Lord." 

At the time this prophecy was made Elijah had been 
dead four hundred and ninety-nine years, and it was 
literally fulfilled, according to the New Testament. 



226 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

See Matt XL, 14; XVII., 3 to 12; Mark IX., 3, 4; 
Luke L, 17 ; IX., 30. Elias and Elijah were one and the 
same person ; and though he was a dead man, he came 
back and communicated. 

Malachi's reputation as a prophet is saved in this, the 
last prophecy of the Old Testament. 

MY GOD. 
I never could picture a righteous God 

Who sat on a golden throne ; 
A mighty Jehovah of flame and flood 

Who rules us by fear alone ; 
Whose fingers were steeped in his subjects' blood, 

Who spoke like the tempest roar, 
Whose greatest delight, if you doubted his might, 

Was to punish forevermore. 

I never could see how that wonderful God 
Who tutored the song-birds and bees, 

Who painted the flowers and gave them perfume, 
Who sculptured the mountains and trees, 

Could be the same God they would teach me to fear, 
And picture Him cruel and grim. 

If I lived forever, I fear I could never 

Find love in my bosom for Him. 

Then prate not to me of a jealous God, 

Who sits on a golden throne, 
A mighty Jehovah of flame and flood, 

A ruler by fear alone. 
But tell me of one who is fashioned of love, 

And more he can never be ; 
For my God IS love — the purest of love, 

God head of Divinity. 

— Bert B. Herrington 



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NEW 
TESTAMENT SPIRITUALISM 

Contrasting the New Testament 
With That of the Old. 

Let us now proceed to learn if the God of the New 
Testament is not a far different and much better spirit 
than Jehovah. 



God of Jesus a Loving Father 

The God of Jesus was a "Loving Father," an all 
wise and Good God, a God of infinite mercy and love, 
and a God of all nations, including the Jews. He was 
the antithesis of the Jewish God, Jehovah. He was 
not a God of war, but was a God of infinite peace, and 
never gave orders through his New Testament me- 
diums to slaughter innocent men, women and little 
children — "everything that breathed." 

Spiritualism Versus Spiritism. 

There is a great difference between Spiritualism and 
Spiritism. The term Spiritism does not imply spir- 
ituality. One may be a Spiritist, believing in spirit 
communion, and at the same time may possess little 
spirituality. Spiritualism is spiritual. Spiritism is not 
spiritual. 

To be a true Spiritualist one should live an upright 
and noble life. He should learn that "spiritual things 



228 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

are spiritually discerned," and his aspirations should 
ever be to do good and be good. 

Israelites and Other Nations Spiritists. 

The Old Testament Bible is conclusive proof that 
nearly all the people of Israel and the tribes with whom 
they were almost always at war were Spiritists. 

Tribal Gods. 

Their gods all were tribal gods who were supposed 
to have power to win battles, put curses upon their 
enemies, and aid their friends in all their efforts, and in 
every way. 

Judaism Versus Christianity. 

Jehovah, the God of Moses and the Israelites, was a 
tutelary deity, while the God of Jesus and of Chris- 
tianity was Our Heavenly Father, the Universal Deity, 
or God of the universe. 

Other nations and tribes had their gods or spirit 
guides, who came to their prophets (mediums) as 
Jehovah came and communicated with Moses and the 
other mediums of Israel. 

Jehovah through his prophets made war continually 
upon the tribes and nations "round about" Israel. But 
the God of Jesus made war upon no nation of the 
earth. His teachers, Jesus, His apostles and disciples, 
all taught peace, love and goodness. They never or- 
dered the slaughter of a single child or woman. 

In this work we have shown that Jehovah was a close 
communion spirit and greatly lacking in Spirituality. 

These tribal gods were supposed to speak through 
mediums called "men of God," "prophets," "seers," 
etc., and the poor people, including the Israelites, were 
possessed of a worshipful fear of these mediums. 



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Their word was law and gospel until their promises and 
predictions failed, when they were classed as "false 
prophets." 

Jehovah Not God of Jesus. 

Jehovah, the God of the Israelites, was altogether a 
different being from the God whom Jesus of Nazareth 
was wont to call "My Father." Certainly the New 
Testament God was a great improvement over, and a 
grand evolution from, the God of Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob. If there ever was a demonstration of the truth 
of evolution, it is shown in the spiritual advancement 
from the teachings of Moses to the teachings of Jesus, 
and there has been a wonderful evolution from Jesus' 
teachings of Christianity to the teachings of Modern 
Spiritualism. Nevertheless the fundamental principles 
of Judaism, Christianity and Modern Spiritualism all 
rest absolutely upon the facts of the spirits of the dead 
appearing to men; of these spirits producing certain 
physical phenomena; of their inspiring men and women 
to utter sublime and spiritual truths; of their entrancing 
and taking control of mortals and in influencing them 
to do things spiritual. If this is not true of the scrip- 
tures, then nothing can be proven by them. 

Modem Spiritualism has the positive, the unimpeach- 
able truth, and the demonstration of the fact that our 
loved ones who have died still live, are about us and do 
manifest their presence and communicate with us. 

Bible Terms Defined. 
"Messias," or "Messiah," "Christ," and "Prophet," 
are synonymous terms, and all four of these words have 
no better definition than "spirit medium." A Messiah 
is a medium, a prophet is a medium, a Christ is a me- 
dium. All such people have mediumistic gifts, medium- 



230 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

istic power, mediumistic faculties, and through their 
organisms, spirits of the past ages have manifested to 
mortals in exactly the same manner as they manifest to 
us today. 

Mark VIIL, 29: "Peter saith unto him, Thou art 
the Christ" (the spirit medium). 

John I., 41 : Andrew says : "We have found the 
Messias" (spirit medium), which is, being interpreted, 
the Christ." 

John IV., 29 : "Come see a man, which told me all 
things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" (spirit 
medium). 

Jesus a Prophet. 

Luke VII., 16 : "And there came a fear on all : and 
they glorified God, saying, A great prophet is risen 
up among us, and that God hath visited his people." 
See also John VI., 14. 

Jesus the Messias. 

John IV., 25, 26: Jesus says he is the "Messias." 
A Messias is a medium, therefore Jesus was a spirit 
medium. 

Prophets, Seers and the Anointed Are Called "Men 
of God"; They Are Mediums. 

Ps. CV, 14 : "He suffered no man to do them wrong : 
yea, he reproved kings for their sakes." 

Verse 15 : Saying, "Touch not mine anointed, and 
do my prophets no harm." 

Spiritually Anointed. 
Luke IV., 18 : Jesus says : "The spirit of the Lord 
is upon me (i. e., he is controlled by the spirit of the 
Lord), because he hath anointed me to preach the gos- 
pel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 231 

hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and 
recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them 
that are bruised." 

Heb. I., 9 : Paul says : 'Thou hast loved righteous- 
ness, and hated iniquity ; therefore God, even thy God, 
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy 
fellows." 

That is to say, God has endowed him with spiritual 
gifts or faculties above his fellows. 

Sons of God Are All Mediums. 

John I., 12 : "But as many as received him, to them 
gave He power to become the sons of God (mediums), 
even to them that believe on his name." In other words, 
Jesus develops the mediumship of all who believe m 
him. 

The Book of Matthew — Does the Religion of Chris- 
tianity Rest on Five Dreams of Joseph? 
First Dream. 

Matt. I., 20 : "But while he thought on these things, 
behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a 
dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to 
take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is con- 
ceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. ,, 

Second Dream. 

II., 12 : "And being warned of God in a dream 
that they should not return to Herod, they departed 
into their own country another way." 

Third Dream. 

Matt. II., 13 : "And when they were departed, be- 
hold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a 



232 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and 
his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until 
I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child 
to destroy him." 

Fourth Dream. 

Verse 19: "But when Herod was dead, behold, an 
angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in 
Egypt," ^ 

Verse 20 : "Saying, Arise, and take the young child 
and his mother, and go into the land of Israel : for they 
are dead which sought the young child's life." 

Verse 21 : "And he arose, and took the young child 
and his mother, and came into the land of Israel." 

Fifth Dream. 

Verse 22 : "But when he heard that Archelaus did 
reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was 
afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned 
of God in a dream, he turned aside into ports of 
Galilee/' 

Verse 23 : "And he came and dwelt in a city called 
Nazareth : that it might be fulfilled which was spoken 
by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene." 

Spirits Commune with Joseph in These Five Dreams. 

In the first chapter, 20th verse, the angel of the Lord 
communicated with Joseph in a dream. 

Chap. II., Verse 12 : It was God who warned Joseph 
in a dream. 

Verse 13 : It was the angel of the Lord who appeared 
to him in a dream and directed him what to do. 

Verse 19 : It was the Angel of the Lord. 

V^.rse 22 : It was God who warned him. 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 233 

It may have been that the writer intended to convey 
the idea that God sent his angel in all these dreams to 
Joseph. It is God's angels (spirits) who communicate 
with mortals in Spiritualism today. 

Are not these five dreams of Joseph about all that 
the great Christian world has upon which to base its 
belief in the Immaculate Conception and Deity of Jesus ? 

If these five dreams are not infallibly true, then is 
not the teachings of Christianity that "J esus was Al- 
mighty God" a mistake? People of those early days 
believed in dreams much more than the Spiritualists 
and others do in these days. However, truth is eternal, 
and the truths that Jesus taught and demonstrated will 
live forever. 

If the church has erred in its interpretation of the 
truths he taught, or there are errors in their translation, 
time will surely eradicate them. 

"Truth is mighty and will prevail, 

The eternal years of God are hers, 
While error wounded writhes with pain, 

And dies amid her worshipers." 

Jesus Tempted of the Devil. 

Matt. IV., 1 : "Then Jesus was led up of the spirit 
into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil." 

Verses 2 to 4 : The tempter came to Jesus after he 
had fasted forty days and nights and became enhun- 
gered, and told him, if he was the Son of God, to 
"command that these stones be made bread." 

Jesus did not do it, nor give any reason why he did 
not, "But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall 
not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
ceedeth out of the mouth of God." 



234 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Verse 5 : Then the devil took Jesus and set him on the 
pinnacle of a temple. 

Who that believes the teachings of the church, which 
says that Jesus was Almighty God, believes that the 
devil set him on the pinnacle of the temple? How can 
anyone help doubting the scriptures or the teachings 
that Jesus was God ? 

Verse 7: Jesus' reply was entirely evasive. 

Verse 8: "The devil took him upon an exceeding 
high mountain and showeth him all the kingdoms of the 
world, and the glory of them." Did he who made the 
world need to be shown his own handiwork ? And did 
the devil think one could see around the world from the 
top of an exceeding high mountain? 

Verse 9 : The devil continues : "And saith unto him, 
All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down 
and worship me." 

Were all these things the devil's that he should give 
them to the Almighty ? 

Angels Minister to Jesus. 

Verse 11 : "Then the devil leaveth him (Jesus), and, 
behold, angels came and ministered unto Him." 

This is Spiritualism: angels minister unto mortals 
today. 

People Sat in Darkness and Saw the Light. 

Verse 16: "The people which sat in darkness saw 
great light; and to them which sat in the region and 
shadow of death, light is sprung up." 

Modern Spiritualism has brought this "light to mil- 
lions of those who sat in darkness regarding the future 
life," and to "those who sat in the region and shadow 
of death," comforting the sorrowing, in unnumbered 
cases today all over the civilized world and in the same 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 235 

manner as it was done by the noble Nazarene in those 
early days, namely : by teaching the spiritual philosophy 
and demonstrating its truth through the production of 
spirit phenomena. 

Mediumship of Jesus — He Begins Preaching. 

Matt. IV., 17: "From that time Jesus began to 
preach, and to say, Repent : for the kingdom of heaven 
is at hand." 

Christ's Sermon on the Mount. 

V., 17: Jesus says: "Think not that I am come to 
destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to 
destroy, but to fulfil. " The Spiritualism he taught and 
demonstrated was fulfilling the spiritual teachings of 
the law and gospel of his day, just as Spiritualism is 
fulfilling the teachings of Jesus, in its present-day 
philosophy and phenomena. 

Jesus Holds Classes, Teaching His Apostles. 
Chapters V., VI., VII., are devoted to teaching his 
apostles what they may expect to meet, and how to 
carry on the mediumistic work they are to do. 

False Prophets. 

VII., 15: "Beware of false prophets (fraudulent 
mediums), which come to you in sheep's clothing but 
inwardly, they are ravening wolves." 

Verse 16 : "Ye shall know them by their fruits." 

Jesus Healed the Leper. 

Matt. VIII., 1 : "When he was come down from the 
mountain, great multitudes followed him. ,, 

Verses 2 to 4 : Jesus healed the leper, and told him 
not to tell any man of it, but to continue in the Jewish 
church. 



236 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Heals Absent Patients. 

Verses 5 to 13 : Jesus heals the centurion's servant at 
a distance without seeing him. This is being done by 
Spiritualists today. Jesus taught Spiritualism and 
practiced mediumship. 

Verses 14 and IS : Jesus cured Peter's wife's mother 
of fever. 

Spirit Obsession. 

Verse 16: Jesus healed people "possessed with dev- 
ils : and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed 
all that were sick." 

Jesus Like Modern Mediums Takes on Conditions. 

Verse 17 : "That it might be fulfilled which was 
spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our 
infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." 

Modern mediums often take on the condition of their 
sick patients while healing them. 

Jesus Controls the Weather. 

Matt. VIII., Verses 23 to 27 : Jesus and his disciples 
went on board a ship. A great tempest arose and the 
ship was covered with the waves. Jesus was asleep, 
"and his disciples awoke him, saying, Lord save us: 
we perish." 

Verse 26: "And he saith unto them, O ye of little 
faith? Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the 
sea ; and there was a great calm." 

Believers Do Works of Jesus. 
In John XIV., 12, Jesus says : "Verily, verily, I say 
unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do 
shall he do also ; and greater works than these shall he 
do ; because I go unto My father." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 237 

"Come now, let us reason together" (Isaiah I., 18). 

Jesus controlled the wind and the waves of the sea, 
and says believers on him should do the same. Did 
anyone ever know of a single instance in which anyone 
claiming to believe in Jesus ever controlled the weather ? 

Devils Cast Out of Men Into Swine. 

Matt. VIII., 28 to 34, tell of Jesus meeting two men 
who were "possessed with devils." Mark V., 2, says 
there was one man, and the 9th verse says : 

"These devils gave their names as "legion." 
(Luke VIII., 27, says it was "a man which had devils." 
Mark V., 13, says : "They were about two thousand" 
of these swine that these unclean spirits entered, "and 
the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, 
and were choked." 

Matt. VIIL, 32, says : "And behold the whole herd 
of swine ran down a steep place into the sea, and per- 
ished in the waters." 

Spiritualists do not believe in one real personal devil, 
not to mention a drove of devils numbering "two thou- 
sand or more," as is claimed in this case. 

Jesus Teaches That Sin Causes Palsy and Forgive- 
ness Cures It. 
Matt. IX., Verse 2 : "And, behold, they brought to 
him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed : and Jesus 
seeing their faith, said unto the sick of the palsy : Son, 
be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." (Mark 
II., 5 to 11; Luke V, 20, 23, 24; XVII., 19.) 

Jesus a Mind Reader. 
Matt. IX., Verse 3: "And, behold, certain of the 
scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth." 



238 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Matt. IX., 4: "And Jesus knowing their thoughts, 
said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?" 

Verse 5 : "For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be 
forgiven thee ; or to say, Arise, and walk ?" 

Forgives Sins. 

Verse 6: "But that ye may know that the Son of 
Man hath power on earth to forgive sins (then saith 
he to the sick of the palsy), Arise, take up thy bed and 
go unto thy house." 

Verse 7 : "And he arose and departed to his house." 

Woman Healed by Touching His Garment. 

Matt. IX., 18 : A certain ruler came to Jesus and said 
his daughter was even now dead, but that Jesus could 
save her. Jesus went to see her, and on his way a 
woman diseased for twelve years was healed by touch- 
ing his garment. 

Verses 20, 22 : Jesus said to her, "Daughter, be of 
good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole." (See 
also Mark V., 27; Luke VIII, 27 to 48.) 

Music Used When Jesus Raised the "Not Dead." 

Verse 23 : "And when Jesus came unto the ruler's 
house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a 
noise, 

Verse 24 : "He said unto them, Give place : for the 
maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him 
to scorn." 

Verse 25 : "But when the people were put forth, 
he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid 
arose." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 239 

Jesus was an excellent magnetic and spiritual healer. 

Jesus Restores the Sight of the Blind. 

IX., 27 to 30: Jesus gives sight to two blind men, 
and then tells them to "see that no man knows it/' but 
they "spread it abroad." 

Obsession Cured. 

Verse 32 says : "A dumb man possessed with a devil 
was brought to him who was made dumb by the devil's 
influence." 

Verse 33 says : "And when the devil was cast out, 
the dumb spake : and the multitudes marvelled, saying, 
It was never so seen in Israel." 

Verse 34: "But the Pharisees said, He casteth out 
devils through the prince of devils." 

In John VII., 20, the Jews accuse Jesus of having 
a devil. And today the Adventists, Russellites and 
other Christian opponents of Spiritualism are proving 
themselves followers of the Pharisees and other Jews 
of ancient days in declaring that "Spiritualism is of the 
devil." 

Verse 35 : "And Jesus went about all the cities and 
villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching 
the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness 
and every disease among the people." 

Modern mediums also preach the gospel of the king- 
dom, the kingdom of heaven, and heal the sick, and 
teach the people the spiritual truths, most of which 
Jesus taught. 

Chapter X. : Jesus called together his twelve dis- 
ciples. They were all mediums, as will be shown by 
the forthcoming scripture references. 



240 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Names His Disciples; Gives Them Power to Raise 

Dead. 

This chapter gives the names of his disciples (see also 
Mark III., 17, 18, 19), and he gives them power to heal 
the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and to cast 
out devils (8th verse). 

Go Forth Empty Handed 

He instructs these mediums to take no money of any- 
kind with them, not to take two coats, neither shoes, 
etc., and says: "For the workman is worthy of his 
hire." They were all well paid for their services, as 
we shall show further on. 

Jesus Teaches Apostles Spiritual Science. 

Matt. X., 16, 17, 18: He tells them they shall be 
persecuted for practicing their gifts. 

Inspirational Speaking, Jesus Taught the Disciples. 

Verse 19: "But when they deliver you up, take no 
thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be 
given you in that same hour what ye shall speak." (See 
also Luke XII., 12.) 

Verse 20 : "For it is not ye that speak, but the spirit 
of your Father which speaketh in you." 

Is not this spirit control ? 

Prophecy Failed or Fulfilled, Which? 

The 23rd verse says : "But when they persecute you 
in this city, flee ye into another : for verily I say unto 
you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel 
till the Son of Man be come." 

If this means the second coming of Christ, this 
prophecy has not yet been fulfilled, as the apostles went 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 241 

over the cities of Israel, in their life-time, and Christ has 
not come yet. If this prophecy means he would return 
and materialize as a spirit to his disciples, then it was 
fulfilled, because he did return to them many times 
after his death. 

Matt. XI., Verse 11 : Jesus praises John the Baptist. 

Reincarnation; Did Jesus Teach It? 

Verse 14: He says of John: "This is Elias which 
was for to come." Apparently meaning that John the 
Baptist was Elias reincarnated in mortal form. 

Jesus Called a Winebibber and Gluttonous. 

Verse 19 : The Son of Man came eating and drink- 
ing, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous and a wine- 
bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners." 

Jesus Heals in Secret. 

Matt. XII., 15 : He heals them all. 

Verse 16 : "And charged them that they should not 
make him known." 

Verse 22 : He healed "one possessed of a devil, blind 
and dumb :" "Insomuch that the blind and dumb both 
spake and saw." 

Spirit Phenomena; Is It of the Devil? 

Jesus, like modern mediums, was accused of pro- 
ducing spirit phenomena by the power of the devil. 
And this accusation came from the church of that day, 
as it does now from the church of this day. The Phari- 
sees were a religious order, a class of Jews, and they 
opposed him. 

Verse 24 : "But when the Pharisees heard it, they 
said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beel- 
zebub, the prince of devils." (Luke XI., 15.) 



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Jesus a Mind Reader — Answers Their Accusations. 

Verse 25 : "And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said 
unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself shall 
not stand :" 

Verse 26 : "And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided 
against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?" 

Verse 27 : "And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by 
whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they 
shall be your judges." (See also 28th to 30th verses.) 

Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost Not Forgiven. 

Verse 31 : Jesus says : "All manner of sin and blas- 
phemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy 
against the Holy Ghost (spirit control) shall not be 
forgiven unto men/' 

Verse 32 : "And whosoever speaketh a word against 
the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him ; but whosoever 
speaketh against the Holy Ghost (spirit control or the 
communicating spirit) it shall not be forgiven him, 
neither in this world, neither in the world to come." 
(See also Luke XII., Verse 10.) 

Christians who believe in this message that Jesus 
gave should be very careful how they declare that 
spirits who communicate with mortals today are "dev- 
ils," because this is blasphemy and a sin that shall not 
be forgiven, Jesus says. 

Pharisees Skeptical — Scribes and Pharisees Ask 
Jesus for a Test. 

Matt. XII., 38 : "Then certain scribes and Pharisees 
answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign (a test) 
from Thee." 

Verse 39: Jesus refused to give them a test and 
referred them to Jonah and the whale story as a "sign" 
or "test." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 243 

Prophecy Not Fulfilled. 

Verse 40 : Jesus says : "For as Jonas was three days 
and three nights in the whale's belly ; so shall the son 
of man be three days and three nights in the heart of 
the earth." 

This prophecy was not fulfilled, according to the 
report of scripture. 

Jesus was but thirty-six hours in the sepulcher. 

Why Speak in Parables? 

Chap. XIII. , 10: His disciples asked him why he 
spoke to the people in parables. 

Verse 11 : "Because it is given unto you to know the 
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is 
not given," said Jesus. 

Verse 13 : He further says : "Because they seeing 
see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they 
understand." 

Then why preach to them at all may be asked ? 

Disciples Clairvoyant and Clairaudient. 

Verse 16: "But blessed are your eyes, for they see. 
and your ears, for they hear." 

Verse 17: "For verily I say unto you, that many 
prophets and righteous men have desired to see those 
things which ye see, and to hear those things which ye 
hear, and have not heard them." 

Then some prophets and righteous men are not clair- 
voyant nor clairaudient. 

This is true today, and thousands of people are devel- 
oping mediumship so they may see and hear. 

Verse 41 : "The Son of Man shall send forth his 
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all 



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things that offend, and them which do iniquity." (His 
angels are his spirit helpers.) 

Verse 42: "And shall cast them into a furnace of 
fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." 

Jesus Not Accepted as a Prophet by His Own 
People. 

Verse 54: "And when he was come into his own 
country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch 
that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this 
man this wisdom and these mighty works ?" 

Jesus Carpenter's Son and Has Brothers and Sisters. 

Verse 55: "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not 
his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and 
Joses, and Simon, and Judas ?" 

Verse 56 : "And his sisters, are they not all with us ? 
(A number of them.) Whence then hath this man all 
these things?" 

Prophet Without Honor. 

Verse 57: "And they were offended. But Jesus 
said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save 
in his own country, and in his own house." 

Verse 58 : "And he did not many mighty works 
there because of their unbelief." 

Modern mediums have like experiences. 

Reincarnation ; Governor Believes in It — Says Jesus 
Was John the Baptist. 

Matt. XIV., 1 : "At that time Herod the tetrarch 
(governor) heard of the fame of Jesus." 

Verse 2 : "And said unto his servants, This is John 
the Baptist ; he has risen from the dead." 



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Miracle of Loaves and Fishes. 

Verses 15 to 23 : His disciples asked Jesus to send 
the people into the villages to buy victuals. 

"Verse 16: "But Jesus said unto them, They need 
not depart ; give ye them to eat," 

Verse 17: "And they say unto him, We have here 
but five loaves and two fishes" 

Verse 18 : "He said, Bring them hither to me." 

Verse 19 : "And he commanded the multitude to sit 
down on the grass, and took the five loaves and two 
fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, 
and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples 
to the multitude." 

Verse 20 : "And they did all eat, and were filled : and 
they took up of the fragments that remained twelve bas- 
kets full." 

Verse 21 : "And they that had eaten were about five 
thousand men besides women and children." (Mark 
leaves out the women and children.) Jesus fed 5,000 
(Matt. XIV., 15 to 21). See also Mark VI., 38 to 44; 
Luke IX., 13 to 17; John VI., 5 to 13, and Mark VIII., 
1 to 10. Jesus fed 4,000 (Matt. XV., 38; XVL, 10). 

Another Dark Seance — Jesus Walks on the Water. 

Verse 22 : Jesus sent the multitudes away and placed 
his disciples in a ship and sent them to the other side. 

Verse 24: "But the ship was now in the midst oi 
the sea, tossed by waves : for the wind was contrary." 

Verse 25 : "And in the fourth watch of the night 
Jesus went unto them walking on the sea." 

Disciples Afraid of a Spirit. 
Verse 26 : "And when the disciples saw him walking 



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on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; 
and they cried out for fear." (See Mark VI., 49, 50.) 

How strange that they should fear a spirit ! I have 
known several fine mediums that were frightened when 
a spirit appeared, but usually good mediums, well de- 
veloped as the disciples were, are happy when spirits 
appear to them. We are always glad to see them. 

Matt. XIV., 27 : "But straightway Jesus spake unto 
them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I ; be not afraid." 

After Jesus was crucified He came to them so often 
that they got over their fear of a spirit. 

Verse 28 : "And Peter answered him and said, Lord 
if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." 

Peter Walks on the Water. 

Verse 29: "And he said, Come. And when Petei 
was come down out of the ship he walked on the water 
to go to Jesus." 

Peter Gets Frightened and Sinks. 

Verse 30 : "But when he saw the wind boisterous, he 
was afraid ; and began to sink ; he cried, saying, Lord, 
save me." 

Verse 31 : "And immediately Jesus stretched forth 
his hand and caught him, and said unto him, Q thou of 
little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" 

Verse 32 : "And when they were come into the ship, 
the wind ceased." 

Who was there to hear Jesus ask Peter why he 
doubted ? Was Matthew there ? 

The good Christians find no difficulty in believing 
this story, and yet they often call Spiritualists super- 
stitious who state that they have seen gravitation over- 
come. by spirit power. 



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Jesus Heals Absent Patient. 

Matt. XV., 22 to 28 : Jesus heals, or drives a devil 
out of the Canaanitish woman's daughter, who was a 
distance from him and he did not see her. This is 
healing the sick at a distance, similar to the way some 
Spiritualist mediums heal today. Though it is a ques- 
tion regarding evil spirits causing the disease. 

Verses 29, 30: Multitudes came to Jesus in the 
mountain and he healed them. 

Another Miracle of Loaves and Fishes. 
Verses 32 to 39 are a repetition of the other miracle 
of feeding five thousand ; but only four thousand were 
fed this time, and He had only "seven loaves and a few 
little fishes" with which to feed them. 

Pharisees and Sadducees Want a Test. 

XVI., 1 : "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees 
came, and, tempting, desired him that he would show 
them a sign from heaven" (a spirit test). 

Verses 2 to 4 : Jesus calls them hypocrites and re- 
fuses them a test, referring them to Jonah and the 
whale. 

Reincarnation Believed In. 

Matt. XVI., 13: Jesus asks His disciples, "Whom 
do men say I the Son of Man am?" 

Verse 14: "And they said, Some say that thou art 
John the Baptist; some Ellas; and others Jeremias, or 
one of the prophets." 

These people must have believed in reincarnation. 
(See Luke IX., 7 to 10,20.) 

Verse 15: "He saith unto them, But whom say ye 
that I am?" 



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Not God but Son of God. 
Verse 16: "And Simon Peter answered and said, 
Thou art the Christ, the anointed, the Son of the living 
God." 

Revelation from Heaven. 

Verse 17 : "And Jesus answered and said unto him, 
Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-joni : for flesh and blood 
hath not revealed it unto thee, but My Father which 
art in heaven." (A spirit communication revealed it. 
This is clear.) 

Jesus Builds His Church on the Rock of Spirit 
Communion. 

Verse 18: Jesus says: "And I say unto thee that 
thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my 
church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." 

That is to say, Jesus builds his church on this rock of 
revelation from heaven (spirit communion), but not 
on Peter himself as the church interprets it. 

Peter said, "Thou art the Christ," but it would be 
better understood today if in place of saying Jesus the 
Christ, or Jesus the anointed, we should say Jesus the 
medium. The meaning is the same in this instance. 

Return After Death ; Jesus Promises To. 

Verse 27 : Jesus promises to come back from beyond 
death with his angels. He did appear to many after 
his death. 

Prophecy Not Fulfilled. 

Verse 28 : "Verily, I say unto you, There be some 
standing here, which shall not taste of death, until they 
see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." 



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Jesus a Materializing Medium. 
Matt. XVII., 1 : "And after six days (Luke IX., 
28, says it was eight days after), Jesus taketh Peter, 
James and John, his brother, and bringeth them up into 
an high mountain apart." 

Jesus a Trance Medium; Transfigured. 

Many Bible prophets were trance mediums. 

Verse 2 says: "And (Jesus) was transfigured be- 
fore them : and his face did shine as the sun, and his 
raiment was white as the light." 

We have seen modern mediums enveloped in a halo 
of light while transfigured, and can believe Jesus was 
in that condition, as stated. 

Moses and Elias Materialize. 
Verse 3 : "And, behold, there appeared unto them 
Moses and Elias talking with Him." 

They Had Been Dead Many Years. 

Now these were not angels of a special creation. 
Some theologians claim angels are separate and supe- 
rior to the spirits of the dead. There were two dead men. 
Moses, according to Christian chronology, had been 
dead fourteen hundred and eighty-two years ; therefore 
he must have been quite "dead"; and this story says 
that after all those years he came back and talked to 
Jesus. If so, then the dead do return. 

Chariot of Fire, Elijah's Ascension. 

2nd Kings II., Verse 11: Elias — formerly called 

Elijah — went up in a chariot of fire nine hundred and 

twenty-eight years before he and Moses appeared on 

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Elias must have been dead, because in that many years 
he must have died a natural death, if nothing had over- 
taken him. But he was taken on board a chariot of 
fire and started for heaven. This being a chariot of 
fire and horses of fire in which this poor man was 
aviating, it is only just to conclude that he was cremated 
at once; therefore, all things considered, Elias must 
also have been quite dead, and both he and Moses 
appeared and talked to Jesus. Many theologians are 
preaching these days on the subject: "Do the Dead 
Return?" And as the Bible is their infallible guide, 
I would respectfully suggest to those who seem in such 
a great doubt about the return and communication of 
spirits, that they take this text for a sermon on that 
subject, and that they keep before their audiences the 
fact that this scripture states positively that Moses and 
Elias appeared unto Jesus and his three apostles ; that 
they talked with Jesus, and that they were surely dead. 

This Materializing Seance Occurred in the Dark. 

Crudens Concordance, subject, "Transfiguration," 
says : "It is thought that this transfiguration happened 
in the night ; and from thence proceeded the sleep with 
which the apostles were oppressed. Moreover, St. 
Luke observes that the next day they came down from 
the mountain (Luke IX., 37), therefore they had passed 
the preceding night there." 

Opponents of Spiritualism who condemn dark circles, 
how do you like this, coming as it does from an accepted 
Christian authority? Jesus Christ held a dark seance 
for materialization of two dead men, Moses and Elias, 
and He was the medium and was entranced. Thus 
Spiritualism is proven true by the Bible. 

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many "signs," tests and evidences that Jesus produced 
in proof of His Messiahship or mediumship. 

In this scripture, as in many other parts of the Bible, 
are to be found the plain, simple statements that the 
so-called dead came back and communicated with men. 

Signs Follow Believers. 

Jesus said : "And these signs shall follow them that 
believe." (Mark XVI., 17.) 

Whom do these signs follow ? They follow the Spir- 
itualists, but do not follow the Christians. The Spir- 
itualists have the different phases of mediumship, in- 
cluding spirit materialization, therefore the Spiritual- 
ists must be the true followers of the noble Nazarene. 
(See also Mark IX, 2; Luke IX, 28.) 

Devil Cause of Insanity. 

Matt. XVII, 14 : "A certain man" came and kneeled 
down to Jesus, saying: 

Verse 15 : "Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is 
lunatic, and sore vexed, for ofttimes he falleth into the 
fire, and oft into the water." 

This looks as though the patient was afflicted with 
epilepsy, sometimes called "falling fits," and had be- 
come insane. Medical authorities of today tell us that 
this falling sickness sometimes exists as a hereditary 
disease, that "It is generally caused by worms; indi- 
gestible food; teeth-cutting; diseases of the brain and 
kidneys ; fright ; passion ; distress of mind," and that, 
"It is a chronic disease, and frequently ends in insanity." 

We truly believe that scientific men of today would 
accept the medical fraternity's diagnosis of this case in 
reasonable preference to the statement of the scriptures. 
That is, that this "certain man's" son's sickness was the 



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result of natural causes, and was not caused by the 
devil, as the scriptures teach. Isn't it true in this case 
that science is preferable to revelation? Science is the 
true savior of the world because it reveals true knowl- 
edge. Science is God's truths and the investigation 
thereof is producing the true Revelation of God. Truth 
is the savior of the world, and reason is its interpreter. 

Science and Christian revelation disagree. The rev- 
elations of Spiritualism harmonize perfectly with 
science. 

Faith to Remove Mountains. 

Verse 20: Jesus said to his disciples, "For verily 
I say unto you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard 
seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to 
yonder place, and it shall remove ; and nothing shall be 
impossible unto you." 

Was Jesus an extremist? 

Did he ever remove any mountains, or did any of his 
followers remove any by faith ? It is generally believed 
in all Christian countries that the only way to remove 
mountains is by the use of pick and shovel, dynamite, 
and the steam shovel, and I am going to guess that no 
intelligent Christian believes that a mountain ever was 
or ever can be removed by faith. 

There is nothing in Modern Spiritualism that equals 
the Nazarene's claims for producing "miracles" of this 
kind by the use of faith alone. 

Money in This Fish Business. 

Verse 24 : "And when they were come to Capernaum, 
they that received tribute money (poll-tax) came to 
Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute ?" 

Verse 25 : "He saith, yes. And when he was come 
into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What think- 



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est thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth 
take custom or tribute? of their own children, 01 
of strangers ?" 

Verse 26: "Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. 
Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children fret." 

Verse 27 : "Notwithstanding, lest we should offend 
them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take 
up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast 
opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that 
take and give unto them for me and thee." 

If people could pay their income taxes that way by 
being Christians, what throngs of people would join 
the Christian church at once ! There is nothing like this 
in Spiritualism. Is this like ancient witchcraft? or is it 
like modern "fortune telling" ? 

Apostles to Occupy Twelve Thrones of Israel — 
Prophecy Not Fulfilled. 

Matt. XIX., 28: Jesus says to his apostles, "Ye also 
shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes 
of Israel." (Luke XXII, 30, same.) 

Fig Tree Miracle. 

Matt. XXL, 19: "And when he saw a fig tree in 
the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon but 
leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee 
henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree with- 
ered away." (See Mark XL, 12, 13, 20, for more.) 

Dark Trumpet Seance. 

Matt. XXIV, 29 : Makes it exceedingly dark. 
Verse 31 says : "And he shall send his angels (spir- 
its) with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall 



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gather together his elect from the four winds, from 
one end of heaven to the other/' 

Prophecy Not Fulfilled — Was Jesus an Adventist? 

Verses 34 and 35 almost make Jesus an Adventist; 
and this prophecy that the end of the world would come 
before that generation passed away, like all similar 
prophecies made by Adventists, never came true. 

A True Prophecy. 

Chap. XXVI., 21 : Jesus foretells his own crucifix- 
ion, and told his disciples that one of them should 
betray him. 

Verse 32: Jesus told them He would return after 
death, and go before them into Galilee ; and He did so. 

Jesus Tells Peter He Will Deny Him — Another 
Prophecy Fulfilled. 

Verse 34: "Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto 
thee, that this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt 
deny me thrice. " 

Verse 35 : "Peter said unto him, Though I should 
die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also 
said all the disciples." 

Verses 48, 49 : Judas betrayed Him with a kiss. 

Jesus Has Legions of Spirit Helpers. 

Verse S3 : "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to 
my Father, and he shall presently give me more than 
twelve legions of angels?" 

Verse 54: "But how then shall the scriptures be 
fulfilled, that thus it must be?" 

Verse 56: "Then all the disciples forsook him and 
fled." 



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Peter Denies Jesus. 

Verse 74: "Then began he (Peter) to curse, and to 
swear, saying, I know not the Man. And immediately 
the cock crew." 

Verse 75 : "And Peter remembered the word of 
Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, 
thou shalt deny me thrice, And he went out and wept 
bitterly." 

Persecutors Ignorant of Spiritual Laws. 

These persecutors of the pure and good Man of 
Nazareth were utterly ignorant of the laws governing 
mediumship, as is clearly shown in the following: 

Matt. XXVIL, 29: They put a crown of thorns 
upon his head. 

Verse 30: "And they spit upon him and took the 
reed and smote him on the head." 

Verse 31 : They mocked him. 

Verse 34 : "They gave him vinegar to drink mingled 
with gall." 

Verse 39: "And they that passed by reviled him, 
wagging their heads." 

Verse 40: They said: "If thou be the Son of God, 
come down from the cross." 

Persecutors of Jesus; Who Were They? 

The following scripture tells just who did it : 

Verse 41 : "Likewise also the chief priests mocking 
htm, with the scribes (lawyers) and elders, said," 

Verse 42 : "He saved others ; himself he cannot save, 
[f he be the King of Israel, let him now come down 
from the cross and we will believe him." 

Verse 43 : "He trusted in God ; let him deliver him 
now, if he will have him : for he said, I am the Son of 
God." 



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Verse 44: "The thieves also, which were crucified 
with him, cast the same in his teeth." 

Luke XXIL, 64, says : "And when they had blind- 
folded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, 
saying, Prophesy who is it that smote thee ?" 

These ignorant priests, lawyers and elders of the 
church were as ignorant of the necessary conditions for 
the production of spirit phenomena as some few people 
of their professions appear to be today. 

The very air was full of murder, and brute force 
ruled the day. There was no one spiritual there, ex- 
cepting the dear medium Jesus, but he was beautifully 
spiritual, for he said : "Father, forgive them, for they 
know not what they do." This was indeed spiritual. 
God bless him. True mediums know more about his 
sufferings than others have capacity to comprehend. 
Jesus suffered death at the hands of the priesthood, the 
elders of the church and the officers of the law, for the 
crime of teaching Spiritualism and demonstrating, 
through his mediumship the truth of a life after death 
for mankind. 

A Very Dark Seance. 

Matt. XXVIL, 45 : "Now from the sixth hour there 
was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." 

Verse 46: "And about the ninth hour Jesus cried 
with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? 
That is to say, My God, My God, why hast thou for- 
saken me ? 

Spirit Phenomena Very Powerful. 
Verse 51 : "The temple was rent from top to the 
bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent." 
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Resurrection of Dead Bodies. 

This was not spirit materialization. 

Verse 52 : "And the graves were opened ; and many 
bodies of the saints which slept arose." 

Verse 53 : "And came out of the graves, after his 
resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared 
unto many." 

In all the seances of Modern Spiritualism that we 
ever attended, and all we ever read about, there never 
was a dead body that broke out of the ground, went into 
a city and appeared to anyone. Even Spiritualists — who 
are sometimes called "dead easies" by Christians — 
cannot believe this story. 

Jesus' Body Disappears. 

Verse 62 : Because Jesus had said He would rise on 
the third day, the Pharisees next day after the "prepa- 
ration," 

Verse 66: "Went and made the sepulchre secure, 
sealing the stone, and setting a watch." 

This was done next day after Jesus' body was put 
in the sepulchre. 

Chap. XXVIII., 1 : Mary Magdalene and the other 
Mary, on the first day of the week, came to see the 
sepulchre. 

Spirit Appears; Rolls Back the Stone. 

Verse 2 : "And behold, there was an earthquake : 
for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and 
came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat 
on it. 

This was a dark seance, and these were pretty strong 
spirit phenomena, and Christians claim to believe in 
them. 



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Was Matthew present? If not, how did he know 
these details? He must have been omnipresent, as he 
gives details of transactions in many localities, some 
from behind closed doors. 

Verse 3 says: "His (the angel's) countenance was 
like lightning, and his raiment white as snow." Did 
Matthew know this was the truth ? 

Spirit Speaks to Her. 

Verse 5 : "And the angel answered and said unto 
the women, Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus, 
which was crucified." This was spirit communion. 

Verse 6 : "He is not here : for he is risen, as he said. 
Come, see the place where the Lord lay." 

Verse 7 : The spirit tells the women to go and tell 
the disciples that Jesus "is risen from the dead, and 
that he would go before them into Galilee, and that 
they should see him. 

This is a spirit communication, nothing more, nothing 
less. 

Jesus Materializes. 

Verse 9: "And as they went to tell his disciples, 
behold, Jesus met them, saying, 'All hail! (Thus the 
dead speak.) And they came and held him by the feet 
and worshiped him." 

Spirit of Dead Jesus Speaks. 
Verse 10: "Then said Jesus unto them, Be not 
afraid; go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, 
and there shall they see Me." 

Jesus a Spirit; Arranges for a Seance. 
Verse 16 : "Then the eleven disciples went away into 
a mountain where Jesus (a spirit) had appointed them." 



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Disciples Doubted When They Saw Him. 

Verse 17 : "And when they saw him, they worshiped 
him ; but some doubted. " 

Why should these mediums and teachers of Spiritual- 
ism doubt their own eyes? 

Jesus' Second Materialization — His Spirit Spoke, 
Though He Was Dead. 

Verse 18 : "And Jesus came and spake unto them, 
saying, "All power is given unto Me in heaven and on 
earth. ,, 

Verse 19: "Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, 
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the 
Son and of the Holy Ghost :" 

Spirit of Jesus with Disciples Always. 

Verse 20: "Teaching them to observe all things 
whatsoever I have commanded you : and, lo, I am with 
you always even unto the end of the world. Amen. ,, 

Do the dead return ? Indeed they do ! 

The Book of Mark. 

Having made record of the Spiritualism of the Book 
of Matthew, and as Mark, Luke and John are largely 
duplicate records of what is written in Matthew, we 
shall only make reference to those passages that are 
copies of those in Matthew, but we shall record all of 
the Spiritualism that is not mentioned therein. 

Spirit Voice from Heaven. 

Mark I., 11, says: "There came a voice from 
heaven saying, Thou art my beloved son in whom I am 
well pleased." Mark did not hear this voice; he only 
heard or read what someone else said about it, and no 
one knows who heard that voice, but as Spiritualists 



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often hear those spirit voices from heaven it is easy 
for them to believe this might be true. 

Spirit Drives Jesus Into Wilderness. 

Verse 12: "And immediately the spirit driveth him 
into the wilderness." 

What spirit drove him into the wilderness? If Jesus 
was God, as claimed by the Christian creeds, could any 
spirit drive him into the wilderness ? 

Angels Minister Unto Jesus. 

Verse 13 : "And he was there in the wilderness forty 
days, tempted of Satan ; and was with the wild beasts ; 
and the angels ministered unto him." 

Angels minister to all their mediums today. If Jesus 
was God, was God tempted of Satan thirty days? 

Jesus Practices His Mediumship Secretly. 

Verse 45 : Jesus practiced his mediumship secretly 
for fear of arrest, the same as modern mediums some- 
times do. 

Jesus a Clairvoyant. 

Chap. II., Verse 8: "And immediately, when Jesus 
perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within 
themselves," etc. Clairvoyance is identical with spir- 
itual perception. 

Verses 3, 4, 5 : The crowd was so great they could 
not reach Jesus, so they broke open the roof and let a 
palsy patient on his bed down where Jesus was. "Son, 
thy sins be forgiven thee," said Jesus. 

Jesus Heals Sick on Sabbath. 
Mark III., 2, 3, 4 : "Is it lawful to do good on the 
Sabbath days?" etc. 
Verse 5 : Jesus angry, heals withered hand. 



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Jesus Ordains His Twelve Disciples. 

Verse 14: "And he ordained twelve that they 
should be with him, and that he might send them 
forth to preach/' 

And they, like some modern mediums, are unedu- 
cated ; think of it. 

Verse 15: "And gave them power to heal sickness, 
and to cast out devils. " 

Jesus Accused of Having a Devil. 

Verses 22 to 27: The scribes (lawyers) say he 
casts out devils by the prince of devils; and Jesus 
shows that if so, the devil would be destroying his 
own kingdom. The same accusation is made against 
Spiritualism today and is answered in the same way 
Jesus answered it as per this scripture. 

Verses 28. 29: Jesus says : All sins excepting the 
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (the communicat- 
ing spirit) shall be forgiven the sons of men. 

Mediumship Held Sacred by Jesus. 
Verse 29 : "But he that shall blaspheme against the 
Holy Ghost (the communicating spirit) hath never for- 
giveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation/' 

Jesus Himself a Carpenter and Has Four Brothers 
Some Sisters. 
VI., 3 : "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, 
the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and 
Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they 
were offended at him." 

Unbelief a Hindrance to Spirit Manifestations. 
Verse 5 : "And he could there do no mighty work 



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save that he laid hands upon a few sick folk and 
healed them." 

Verse 6: "And he marvelled because of their un- 
belief." 

Jesus Sends Out Disciples Two and Two. 

Verse 7 : He gave them power over unclean spirits. 

Verse 8: "Commanded them to take nothing with 
them save a staff only ; no scrip, no bread, no money 
in their purse :" 

Verse 9 : Not two coats. 

Verse 10: "And he said unto them, In what place 
soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye 
department from that place." 

Cursed for Not Entertaining His Disciples. 

Verse 11: "And whosoever shall not receive you, 
nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the 
dust under your feet for a testimony against them. 
Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for 
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than 
for that city." 

(Matt. X., 14, 15 ; Luke IX., 1, 5.) Jesus pronounced 
this curse. Was it doing justice to the innocent people 
of the city to curse them all for one man's act? 

Jesus Drives Out an Absent Devil. 

Mark VII., 25 to 31 : Jesus cast out a devil from the 
Greek woman's daughter and did not visit her at all. 

Jesus Feeds Four Thousand. 

VIII., 1 to 10: Jesus feeds four thousand with seven 
loaves and a few small fishes. (See Matt. XV., 38.) 

Pharisees Want Tests. 
Verse 11: The Pharisees seek a "sign from 
heaven" (a spirit test) through Jesus. 



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Verse 12 : Jesus refuses to give them a test. 

Verses 16 and 17: Jesus read the minds of the 
disciples. 

Verse 23 : He healed a blind man with "spit" (sa- 
liva) and magnetism. 

Reincarnation Believed. 

Verse 27: Jesus asked his disciples, "Whom do 
men say that I am ?" 

Verse 28: "And they answered, John the Baptist: 
but some say, Elias ; and others, One of the prophets." 

Verse 29: "But whom say ye that I am? And 
Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the 
Christ" (the Mediator, or Medium). 

Jesus Foretells His Own Future. 
Verse 31 : Jesus tells them he must suffer many 
things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and 
scribes, "and be killed, and after three days rise again." 

Transfiguration and Materialization. 

Mark IX., 1 to 9: Is a repetition of the story of 
Moses and Elias materializing upon the mount of trans- 
figuration. 

Verses 14 to 30 : Jesus casts a "dumb and deaf spirit" 
out of a young man, who probably had epileptic or 
"falling fits." 

Jesus Heals Poor Blind Bartimeus. 
Chap. X., 46 to 52, tells the pitiful story. 

Jesus Teaches Disciples Inspirational Speaking. 
Mark XIIL, 11: "But when they shall lead you, 
and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what 



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ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate; but what- 
soever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye : 
for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost" (spirit 
control, or the spirit influencing). 

This is excellent Spiritualism. The spirit speaks 
through the disciples, Jesus says. In the remainder of 
this chapter Jesus is very pessimistic with the exception 
of the following : 

Jesus Promises to Return as a Spirit. 

Verse 26 : Jesus says : "And then shall they see the 
Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and 
glory." 

Verse 27: "And then shall he send his angels and 
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, 
from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost 
part of heaven." 

Unfulfilled Prophecy of Jesus. 

Verse 30 : "Verily I say unto you, that this genera- 
tion shall not pass till all these things be done." 

Jesus coming in the clouds, stars fall, sun and moon 
give no light, etc. All these prophecies failed. 

Mediumship of Jesus Again Demonstrated — 
Foretells Occurrences. 

Mark XIV., 13 : "And he sendeth forth two of his 
disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and 
there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water : 
follow him." 

Verse 14 : "And wheresoever he shall go in, say to 
the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where 
is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with 
my disciples?" 



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Verse 15 : "And he will show you a large upper room 
furnished and prepared ; there make ready for us." 

Verse 16 : "And his disciples went forth, and came 
into the city, and found as he had said unto them ; and 
they made ready the passover." (See Luke XXII. , 
10 to 13.) 

Prophecy Fulfilled. 

Verses 17, 18: This prophecy was fulfilled. Jesus 
came with the twelve and they held the passover. This 
scripture testifies to the truth of the mediumship of 
Jesus. Such phenomena is of frequent occurrence in 
Spiritualism. 

Jesus Foretells His Betrayal. 

Verse 18: "And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, 
Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with 
me shall betray me." 

Verse 19: One after the other asked "Is it I?" "Is 
it I?" 

Ate With Their Fingers. 

Verse 20 : "And he answered, It is one of the twelve, 
that dippeth with me in the dish." (See also Matt. 
XXVI., 23; John XIII., 26.) 

They ate with their fingers ; knives, forks and spoons 
were not used in eating in those days, and they dipped 
or sopped their bread in the one dish. 

Jesus Promises to Return After Death. 

Verse 28: "But after that I am risen, I will go 
before you into Galilee." This promise he fulfilled. 
(See Matt. XXVIII., 7 to 11.) 

Jesus Returns — Disciples Believed Not. 
Mark XVI., 9, 10, 11: Jesus appeared to Mary 
Magdalene, arid when she told them they "believed not." 



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Verse 12 : "After that he appeared in another form 
unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the 
country. " 

Verse 13 : "And they went and told it unto the resi- 
due : neither believed they them." 

Verse 14 : "Afterward he appeared unto the eleven 
as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their 
unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed 
not them which had seen him after he was risen." 

Signs Shall Follow Believers. 

Mark XVI., 17 : "And these signs shall follow them 
that believe: in my name shall they cast out devils; 
they shall speak with new tongues ;" 

Verse 18 : "They shall take up serpents ; and if they 
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they 
shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover." 

Spiritualists have some of these signs which prove 
they are the true believers. Christians do not have 
them. Are they the true believers? 

Jesus, Though Dead, Follows His Disciples' 
Lectures With Tests. 

Mark XVI. , 20 : "And they went forth and preached 
everywhere, the Lord (after his crucifixion) working 
with them, and confirming the word with signs (tests) 
following. Amen." 

Jesus had been crucified and was "dead" at this time, 
and this scripture says he was working with his dis- 
ciples and confirming their teachings with "signs" 
which are tests or proofs of the truths of Spiritualism, 
and the resurrection of the dead, and of the presence 
and power of the spirit Jesus. 



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Jesus was the spirit guide of the apostles, as the 
scriptures amply prove. This is pure Spiritualism. Of 
the doubting Christian once more we will ask : Do 
the dead return? Does the Bible teach Spiritualism? 



The Book of Luke — Luke's Only Evidence, Memory 
and Hearsay. 

The Gospel of St. Luke rests entirely on his memory 
and on hearsay. 

Luke, Chap. I., Verse 1, says : "Forasmuch as many 
have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration 
of those things which are most surely believed 
among us." 

Hearsay Evidence. 

Verse 2 : "Even as they delivered them unto us 
which from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and min- 
isters of the zvord;" 

Verse 3 : "It seemed good to me also, having had 
perfect understanding of all things from the very first, 
to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus." 

No one knows who Theophilus was to whom the 
Book of Luke is addressed, nor exactly how it comes 
to appear in the Bible. 

An Angel of the Lord Appears. 

Verse 11 says: "And there appeared unto him 
(Zacharias, a priest) an angel of the Lord," etc. 

Verse 12 : "And when Zacharias saw him, he was 
troubled, and fear fell upon him." 

Miraculous Conception of John. 

Verse 13 : "But the angel said unto him, Fear not, 
Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard: and thy wife 
Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his 
name John." 



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In this Book of Luke he quotes the exact words of 
angels to mortals, of mortals to angels, of mortals to 
mortals, etc., including the exact words of Jesus on 
many occasions ; could he have been present always, 
and did his memory serve him accurately if he were? 

Spirit of Another Man Returns — Claims to Be 
Gabriel. 

Verse 14 : The angel speaks and says : "And thou 
shalt have joy and gladness ; and many shall rejoice 
at his birth." (The birth of the child that Gabriel 
promised Zacharias's wife.) 

Verse 15 : The angel tells him that this unborn child 
shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink 
neither wine nor strong drink, and he shall be filled 
with the Holy Ghost (spirit power) from his mother's 
womb. 

Elias to Be Boy's Spirit Guide. 

Verse 17 says: "And he shall go before him in the 
spirit and power of Elias/' etc. 

Verse 18: "And Zacharias said unto the angel, 
Whereby shall I know this ? for I am an old man, and 
my wife is well stricken in years." 

Spirit of Man Gabriel Speaks to Zacharias. 

Verse 19 : "And the angel answering said unto him, 
I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and 
am sent to speak unto thee, and to show thee these 
glad tidings." 

Gabriel was a spirit man. (See Daniel VIII., Verses 
15 to 18.) 

Dan. IX., 21, says: "Yea, while I was speaking in 
prayer, even the man Gabriel whom I had seen in the 



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vision in the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, 
touched me about the time of the evening oblation. " 
Gabriel was a spirit man, and this dead man returned. 

Zacharias a Medium. 

Luke I., 11, 20: Spirit Gabriel told Zacharias that 
he should be dumb and not able to speak until the babe 
was born, because of his unbelief. 

Was this not severe punishment for unbelief ? 

Verses 11 to 22 : Zacharias had a vision in the tem- 
ple. He was visited by the spirit Gabriel who con- 
versed with him. This is positive evidence that Zacha- 
rias was a medium. 

Verse 26 : Six months later this angel Gabriel was 
sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth. 

Gabriel, a Spirit Man, Visits Mary. 

Verses 27, 28, 29 : This spirit man Gabriel visited 
the Virgin Alary, and made strange promises. 

Mary a Medium. 

Verse 29: Mary saw this spirit of the dead man 
Gabriel. This is evidence that she was clairvoyant, and 
that dead men do return. If he was materialized, then 
Mary was a materializing medium. 

Verses 30 and 33 : This spirit talked to Mary, prom- 
ised her a babe, and named it Jesus. 

Jesus to Occupy the Throne of David. 

Verse 32 says : "He shall be great, and shall be called 
the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give 
unto him the throne of David." 

This prophecy of the spirit Gabriel was never ful- 
filled. Jesus never occupied the throne of David. 



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Verse 41 : "And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy 
Ghost" (spirit influence), therefore Elizabeth was a 
medium. All three of these persons saw the dead man 
Gabriel, and he talked to Zacharias and the Virgin 
Mary. So the dead do return and communicate with 
mortals, for the Bible says they do. 

Named Babe — Regains Speech. 

Verse 57 : The promised babe is born. 

Verse 59 : They named him Zacharias. 

Verse 62 : "And they made signs to his father, how 
he would have him called." 

Verse 63 : "And he asked for a writing table, and 
wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marveled 
all." 

Verse 64 : "And his mouth was opened immediately, 
and his tongue loosed, and he spake and praised God." 

Zacharias Controlled to Preach. 
Verses 67 to 79 : "The medium Zacharias was filled 
with the Holy Ghost (spirit power), and prophesied, 
saying:" His prophecy follows. 

Birth of Jesus of Nazareth. 
Luke II., 7 : Jesus born and laid in a manger. 

Spirits Manifest Through the Shepherds. 

Verses 8, 9 : The angel of the Lord came upon the 
shepherds, who were watching their flocks in the fields 
by night, and they were sore afraid. 

Spirit Communion and a Test. 
Verses 10 to 12: This angel of the Lord gives a 
spirit communication to the shepherds and says, "This 
shall be a sign (a test) unto you." 



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Great Materializing Seance 

Verse 13 : A multitude of spirits appear praising 
God. 

Verse 15 : These angels went away into heaven. 

Simeon of Jerusalem a Medium. 

Luke II., Verse 25 : "And behold, there was a man 
in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon ; and the same 
man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation 
of Israel: and the Holy Ghost (spirit influence) was 
upon him." 

Verse 26: "And it was revealed unto him by the 
Holy Ghost (spirit impression or influence) that he 
should not see death before he had seen the Lord's 
Christ" (the Lord's mediums or mediators). 

Spirit Control. 

Verse 27 : He was brought "by the spirit into the 
temple." 

Verse 28 : He took Jesus and blessed him. 
Verse 29 : Then he was ready to die. 

Woman 88 Years Old a Prophetess or Medium. 

Verse 36: "And there was one Anna, a prophetess 
(medium), the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of 
Aser, of great age." 

Verse 37 : "A widow of four score and four years." 
Verse 38 : "She coming in at that instant gave thanks 
likewise unto the Lord." 

Jesus, Twelve Years Old, Astonishes the Wise Men. 

The remainder of this chapter tells of the 12-year- 
old Jesus astonishing the wise men of the temple. 



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Mediumship of John. 

Luke III., Verse 2: "The word of God (a spirit 
message) came unto John, the son of Zacharias, in the 
wilderness." 

Verse 3 : "And he came unto all the country about 
Jordan preaching the baptism of repentance for the 
remission of sins." 

The word of the Lord, or spirit message, comes to 
hundreds of modern mediums whom we know and have 
met in our long ministerial labor for the cause of Spir- 
itualism, and these hundreds of inspired men and 
women went forth and preached the new gospel of 
Spiritualism just as John, the son of Zacharias, did, and 
as Jesus, Peter, Paul, and many other disciples and 
apostles of Jesus, after the word of the Lord or the 
spirit messages came to them. 

John's Preaching and Teachings. 

Verse 7: John calls his audience "Generation of 
vipers." How like his master Jesus. 

Verse 1 1 : John says : "He that hath two coats, let 
him impart to him that hath none ; and he that hath 
meat, let him do likewise." 

Be Content with Your Wages. 

Verse 14: He told the soldiers, "Be content with 
your wages." Would the workingman uphold such 
preaching today? 

Verse 15: People wondered if John was not the 
Christ. 

Verse 16 : John disclaims the honor. 

Verse 19: He reproved Herod for evils he had 
done. 



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Verse 20 : And Herod shut John up in prison. 

A Spirit Voice from Heaven — Heaven Opened — 
Dove Materialized. 

Verse 21 : Jesus baptized by John, and "praying, 
the heavens were opened. ,, 

Verse 22: "And the Holy Ghost (spirit power) de- 
scended in bodily shape like a dove upon him (upon 
Jesus), and a voice from heaven (a spirit voice), which 
said, Thou art my beloved Son ; in thee I am well 
pleased." 

Jesus Thirty Years Old. 

Verse 23 : And Jesus himself began to be about 
thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son 
of Joseph, which was the son of Heli. 

Jesus' Genealogy. 

Here begins Luke's genealogy of Jesus, which con- 
tradicts entirely Matthew's genealogy of the Man of 
Nazareth, and ends with this chapter. (See Matt. I., 
1 to 17.) 

Jesus Led by the Spirit While He Is Under Full 

Control. 

Chap. IV., Verse 1 : "And Jesus being full of the 
Holy Ghost (under full control of the spirit), returned 
from Jordan, and was led by the spirit into the wilder- 
ness." 

This is as plain and clear Spiritualism as language 
can make it. Our modern mediums have been led into 
the forests, not to be tempted of the devil, but to dig 
roots, and gather herbs, which the spirits leading them 
prescribed as medicine for certain people who were 
ill. The writer knows of many such cases, and in every 



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one the patient was cured of his illness. So it is easy 
for Spiritualists to understand how Jesus was led into 
the wilderness by a spirit, though they may question 
Luke's idea that the purpose was to tempt him of the 
devil. 

Jesus Under Spirit Control. 

Verse 14 : "And Jesus returned in the power of the 
spirit into Galilee." 

That is to say : he returned under spirit influence or 
control, the same as he went into the wilderness. 

Jesus a Mind Reader. 
Luke VI., 8: "But he knew their thoughts," etc. 

John the Baptist Greatest Medium. 

Chap. VII., 28 : Jesus says : "For I say unto you, 
Among those that are born of women there is not a 
greater prophet (spirit medium) than John the Baptist/' 

Verse 33 : "For John the Baptist came neither eat- 
ing bread nor drinking wine; and ye say he hath a 
devil. ,, 

Mary Magdalene Possessed of Seven Devils. 

Chap. VIII., Verse 2 : "And certain women, which 
had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary 
called Magdalena, out of whom went seven devils." 

Disciples Did Not Know That Jesus Was God. 

Verse 25 : "And he said unto them, Where is your 
faith? And they being afraid, wondered, saying one 
to another, What manner of Man is this ! for he com- 
mandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him." 

Devils Driven Into Swine. 
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being driven out of one man. (Matt. VIII., 28, says 
two.) 

Did Jesus Raise the Dead? 

Verses 41 to 56 tell the story of raising the "dying" 
and "dead" daughter of Jairus, the ruler of the syna- 
gogue. 

Verse 42 says she lay dying. 

Verse 49 says she is dead. 

Verse 52: Jesus said to her friends, "Weep not; 
she is not dead, but sleepeth." 

So she was not dead. Jesus only awakened her. 

Verse 53 : "They laughed him to scorn, knowing 
that she was dead." 

This shows little respect for Jesus, whom they trusted 
so much, does it not ? 

Verses 54 and 55 : "Jesus took her by the hand, 
saying, Maid, arise. And her spirit came again, and 
they gave her food. 

Do the Dead Return? 

Luke IX., 30: "And, behold, there talked with him 
two men (spirits), which were Moses and Elias." 

Verse 31 : "Who appeared in glory, and spake of his 
decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem." 

This is spirit communion. 

Moses and Elias had been dead for centuries and 
they talked to Jesus about His coming crucifixion. If 
so, The dead do return. 

Another Dark Seance — Moses and Elias Materialize. 

Verses 28 to 36 tell the story. Under the heading, 
"Transfigured," Crudens Concordance says: "It is 
thought that this transfiguration happened in the night ; 
and from thence proceeded the sleep with which the 



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apostles were oppressed; moreover, St. Luke observes 
that the next day they came down from the mountain 
(Luke IX., 37) ; therefore they had passed the pre- 
ceding night there. 

Further on he speaks of this materializing seance as 
"convincing proof that Jesus was the Messiah." If so, 
are not all materializing mediums Messiahs? If not, 
why not ? 

A Spirit Voice Is Heard. 

Verse 35 says : "And there came a voice out of the 
cloud saying, This is my beloved Son : hear him." 

Epilepsy or the Devil? 

Luke IX., Verses 37 to 44, tells again of the man's 
son afflicted with epilepsy or falling sickness. 
Verse 39 : "And, lo, a spirit taketh him." 
Verse 42 : "And as he (Jesus) was yet acoming, the 
devil threw him down and tare him. And Jesus re- 
buked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and 
delivered him again to his Father." (See also Matt. 
XVII., 15 to 18.) 

Mind Reading Again. 
Verse 47 : "And Jesus perceived the thought of their 
heart," etc. 

Disciples Forbid Casting Out Devils. 
Verse 49 : Disciples forbid one who was not a dis- 
ciple casting out devils. 

Verse 58 : Jesus has not where to lay his head. 

Jesus Instructs His Mediums. 
Luke X., Verse 1 : Sends out seventy of his disciples, 
two and two. 



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Verse 3 : "Go your ways ; behold, I send you forth 
as lambs among wolves. " 

Modern mediums meet similar conditions frequently. 

Verse 4 : "Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes : 
and salute no man by the way." 

That is, he sent them barefooted and as paupers. 
They would have been called tramps today, and have 
been liable to arrest, not having visible means of 
support. 

Verses 5 to 8 : He tells them to enter into the house 
where they are welcome, and remain eating and drink- 
ing such things as they give : for the laborer is worthy 
of his hire. "Go not from house to house." 

They were not allowed to board around like a "coun- 
try school marm" in former times, and they should not 
be obliged to do so. Jesus was right. 

Jesus Teaches Hell; Curses Cities. 
Verses 9 to 17: Jesus pronounces a curse on the 
cities that will not receive his apostles. 
Verse 15 : Sends them down to hell. 

Jesus Develops Mediums — Gives Them Great 
Power. 

Verse 19: "Behold, I give unto you power to tread 
on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of 
the enemy : and nothing shall by any means hurt you." 

Spirits Subject to the Seventy Disciples. 

In preparing his seventy elders for their field work, 
after telling them that "nothing shall by any means 
hurt them." 

Verse 20 : He says : "Notwithstanding in this rejoice 



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not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather 
rejoice because your names are written in heaven." 

Mediumship Given By Our Heavenly Father. 

Luke XL, Verse 9 : "Ask and ye shall receive," etc. 

Verse 10 : "For every one that asketh receiveth," etc. 

Verse 13 : "If, ye then, being evil, know how to give 
good gifts unto your children, how much more shall 
your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit (spirit me- 
diumship or spirit power) to them that ask Him." 

Some Christians despise, condemn and refuse this 
power of the Holy Ghost, but Spiritualists court it, 
receive it, and are blessed by it. 

Verse 14 : Jesus casts out a devil that was dumb. 

Some Ministers Are Saying This of Modern 
Mediums. 
Verse 15: "But some said, He casteth out devils 
through Beelzebub, the chief of devils." 

Others Want a Spirit Test. 

Verse 16 : "And others, tempting him, sought of him 
a sign from heaven" (a spirit test). 

Again Jesus Reads Their Minds. 

Verse 17: "But he, knowing their thoughts, said 
unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is 
brought to desolation; and a house divided against a 
house falleth." 

Verse 18 : "If Satan also be divided against himself, 
how shall his kingdom stand ? because ye say that I cast 
out devils through Beelzebub." 

This same argument may be brought by Spiritual- 



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ists when they are accused of being deceived by the 
devil. 

They Want More Tests. 

Verse 29: "And when the people were gathered 
thick together he began to say, This is an evil genera- 
tion : they seek a sign." 

Were they evil because they asked for proofs of the 
claims of Jesus? It seems to us they had a perfect 
right to ask for a sign or a proof of his claims. Modern 
mediums are not so sparing of their tests as the Bible 
gives us to understand Jesus was. Jesus completes this 
verse as follows : "And there shall no sign be given 
it (this "evil generation"), but the sign of Jonas, the 
prophet." 

Verse 30 : "For as Jonas was a sign unto the Nine- 
vites, so shall also the son of man be to this generation." 

Jesus Teaches Disciples Inspirational Speaking. 

Luke XII. , 11 : "And when they bring you unto the 
synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye 
no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what 
ye shall say," etc. 

More Spiritual Science. 

Verse 12 : "For the Holy Ghost (spirit control) shall 
teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say." 

Spirit mediums of today depend upon the inspiration 
of the spirit influences when they speak by inspiration. 
This is Spiritualism, and Jesus taught it. 

Verse 13 : "And one of the company said unto him, 
Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inher- 
itance with me." 

Verses 14, 15 : Jesus scorned to use his mediumship 



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for such commercial purposes, just as modern mediums 
often do. 

Jesus Promises to Return After Death. 

Verses 37, 38, 40 : Jesus teaches that he will return 
to the disciples after his death, and while they are still 
living on earth. 

Obsession or Was It Disease? 

Chap. XIII., Verse 11., Luke says: "The woman 
had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years and was bowed 
together, and could in no wise lift up herself." 

Verse 16: Jesus says: "Satan had bound her, lo, 
these eighteen years." 

Was the lady afflicted with "a debilitated condition, an 
unsound, unhealthy state, a disease," as Webster de- 
fines the word infirmity, or was it "Satan," the devil, 
who obsessed her? This shows the lax way in which 
the writers of the scriptures expressed themselves, and 
the uncertainty at times of their exact meaning. 

Evil Spirits Cannot Return, Says Jesus. 

XVI., 22 : "And it came to pass that the beggar died, 
and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom : 
the rich man died and was buried." 

All three were dead. The rich man was in hell. 
Abraham and Lazarus were in heaven and they con- 
versed together. 

Verse 23 : "And (the rich man) in hell he lift up his 
eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off 
and Lazarus in his bosom." 

Jesus' Teachings of Hell Fire. 
Verse 24 : "And he cried and said, Father Abraham, 
have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip 



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the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue ; for 
I am tormented in this flame." 

Verse 25 : "But Abraham said, Son, remember that 
thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and like- 
wise Lazarus evil things : but now he is comforted, 
and thou art tormented. " 

Verse 26 : "And beside all this, between us and you 
there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would 
pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass 
to us, that would come from thence." 

That is, evil spirits cannot get out of hell to return 
to earth, and the rest of this chapter makes that point 
clear. 

This scripture contradicts some of the other teachings 
of the Bible, and of the Christian church ; especially 
does it contradict spirit obsession, and also the claims 
of those who attribute the occurrences of the seance 
rooms to evil spirits impersonating our spirit friends ; 
because the spirit of the great Abraham in this scrip- 
ture is made to say that no evil spirit can get out of 
hell to return to us. 

Verse 27: "Then he said (the rich man), I pray 
thee therefore, father, that thou wouldst send him to 
my father's house :" 

Verse 28 : "For I have five brothers ; that he may 
testify unto them, lest they also come into this place 
of torment." 

Verse 29: "Abraham saith unto him, They have 
Moses and the prophets : let them hear them." 

Return of Dead Causes Repentance? 
Verse 30: "And he said, Nay, Father Abraham: 
but if one went unto them from the dead, they will 
repent." 



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Does Jesus Contradict His Own Teachings? 

Verse 31 : "And he said unto him, If they hear not 
Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, 
though one rose from the dead." 

Contradicts Spirit Obsession. 

According to this quoted scripture, evil spirits are in 
hell. It sounds the doom of men possessed of riches. 
They go to hell, and these evil spirits must stay there , 
they cannot get out. "There is a great gulf fixed : so 
that they which would pass from hence to you cannot ; 
neither can they pass to us, that would come from 
thence," says this scripture. And because the rich 
man could not get out of hell, he tried to send word to 
his five brothers that he was in hell, and to warn them 
against getting rich, for riches would send them to hell. 
This surely contradicts Jesus' own teachings of spirit 
obsession. If spirits are sentenced to hell for their 
evil doings and cannot get out to come back to earth, 
spirit obsession is not possible. It also contradicts a 
future resurrection, for there are no resurrections. 
Thus Luke makes Jesus contradict his own teachings. 

Jesus Heals Ten Lepers. 

Luke XVII., Verses 12 to 20: Jesus healed ten 
lepers without touching them. 

Jesus Corroborates Burning of Sodom, 

Verse 29 : Jesus corroborates the burning of the city 
of Sodom with fire and brimstone from heaven. 

He says : "But the same day that Lot went out of 
Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and 
destroyed them all." 



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Prophecy Fulfilled. 

Chap. XVIIL, Verses 31 to 34: Jesus foretells his 
own crucifixion. 

Verses 35 to 43 : He healed the blind beggar, say- 
ing: "Thy faith hath saved thee." 

Prophecy Never Fulfilled. 
Luke XXL, 32 : "Verily I say unto you, This gen- 
eration shall not pass away till all be fulfilled. 

An Angel Strengthens Jesus. 

Chap. XXIL, Verse 43 : "And there appeared an 
angel unto him from heaven strengthening him." 

Angels are powerful and give strength to their me- 
diums today in their work, as any medium can testify. 

Therefore, Jesus being a man and a medium, it would 
be the most natural thing that his spirit guides, the 
angels, should strengthen him. 

This Scripture, if true, proves the truth of spirit 
communion. 

Poor Conditions for Tests. 

Verse 63 : "And the men that held Jesus mocked 
him, and smote him." 

Verse 64: "And when they had blindfolded him, 
they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, 
Prophesy, who is it that smote thee ?" 

This is about the way some men test our mediums 
in their attempted exposures of today. 

Spirits Appear and Talk at the Sepulchre. 
Luke XXIV., 4 : "And it came to pass as they were 
much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men (spirits) 
stood by them in shining garments." 



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The 23rd verse says they saw them in "vision." 
Verse 5 : They ask : "Why seek ye the living among 
the dead?" 

Verses 9, 10 and 11 : "Mary Magdalene, and Joanna 
and Mary, the mother of James, and other women that 
were with them, which told these things unto the apos- 
tles." (See Matt. XXVIII, Verses 1 to 8.) 

Apostles Unbelievers. 

"And the apostles believed them not." 
These apostles were great unbelievers. 

Spirit of Jesus Materializes. 

Luke XXIV, 13 to 15: Jesus appears to two ol 
them. 

Verse 15: "And it came to pass, that while they 
communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew 
near, and went with them." 

Verse 16: "But their eyes were holden that they 
should not know him. Jesus assumed to know not of 
the crucifixion and these men did not know it was he, 
and they told him of the vision the women had had of 
him at the sepulchre. 

Jesus, a Spirit, Calls Them Fools to Believe 
Prophets. 

Verse 25 : "Then he (Jesus) said unto them, O fools, 
and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have 
spoken." 

Jesus, a materialized spirit, said this. 

Jesus, a Spirit, Expounds Scripture. 
Verse 27 : He expounded the scriptures unto them 
at great length. 



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Jesus, a Spirit, Dines With These Men. 

Verse 30: "And it came to pass, as he sat at meat 
with them, he took bread and blessed it, and brake, and 
gave to them." 

Jesus Dematerialized. 

Verse 31 : "And their eyes were opened and they 
knew him, and he vanished out of their sight." 

Materializes Again. 

Verse 36: "And as they thus spake, Jesus himseli 
stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace 
be unto you." 

Spirit Terrifies Disciples. 

Verse 37 : "But they were terrified and affrighted, 
and supposed that they had seen a spirit." 

Why should these mediums be so skeptical and doubt- 
ing and why afraid of a spirit. 

Flesh and Bones Materialized. 
Verses 38 and 39: Jesus tries to prove he is there 
with his flesh and bones. 

Verse 41 : Still they believed not. 

Spirit of Jesus Eats Fish. 

Verse 42 : "And they gave him a piece of a broiled 
fish, and of honeycomb." 

Verse 43 : "And he took it and did eat before them." 

Disciples Wait Spirit Power. 

Verse 49: Jesus (a spirit) says to the disciples: 
"But tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be 
endued with power from on high" (spirit power). 



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Again Jesus Dematerialized. 
Verse 5 1 : "And it came to pass, while he blessed 
them, he was parted from them, and carried up into 
heaven." 

The Gospel According to John. 
The Book of John contains much Spiritualism. 

God, No Man Hath Seen. 

John I., 18: "No man hath seen God at any time; 
the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the 
father, he hath declared him." 

Sons of God Are Spirit Mediums. 

Jesus Develops His Converts' Mediumship. 
Verse 12 : "But as many as received him, to them 
gave he power to become the Sons of God (spirit 
mediums), even to them that believe on his name." 

Clairvoyant — John Is One — Jesus Under Spirit 
Control. 

Verse 32 : "And John bare record saying, / saw the 
spirit descending from heaven like a dove and it (the 
spirit) abode upon him." (That is, the spirit influenced 
or controlled Jesus.) 

Jesus Baptizes with Spirit Power. 

Verse 33 : John says : "And I knew him not. (John 
did not know who he was to baptize.) But he that sent 
me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon 
whom thou shalt see the spirit descending and remain- 
ing on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the 
Holy Ghost" (spirit power). 

Why do not modern ministers baptize with the Holy 
Ghost? (spirit power). Is it because they are not in 
possession of it? 



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Verse 34 : "And I saw, and bear record that this is 
the Son of God." 

Verse 41 : "He first findeth his own brother Simon, 
and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which 
is, being interpreted, the Christ" (the medium). 

Jesus the Son of Joseph. 

Verse 45 : "Philip findeth Nathaniel and saith 
unto him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the 
law, and the prophets, did write, Jesus of Nazareth, 
the son of Joseph." 

Jesus Clairvoyant. 
Verses 47 to 51 : He saw Nathaniel clairvoyantly, 
who was under a fig tree at the time, and he read his 
character, which converted Nathaniel. 

Jesus' First Miracle, So-Called — Turned Water Into 

Wine. 

Chap. II., Verse 6: "And there were set there six 
waterpots of stone, after the manner of the purifying 
of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece" 
(90 gallons or more). 

Verse 7 : "Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots 
with water. And they filled them up to the brim." 

Verse 8: "And he saith unto them, Draw out now, 
and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they 
bare it." 

Verse 9: "When the ruler of the feast had tasted 
the water that was made wine, and knew not whence 
it was (but the servants which drew the water knew) : 
the governor of the feast called the bridegroom." 

Verse 10 : "And saith unto him, Every man at the 
beginning doth set forth good wine ; and when men 



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have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou 
hast kept the good wine until now." 

Verse 11 : "This beginning of miracles did Jesus in 
Cana of Galilee and manifested forth his glory; and 
his disciples believed on him." 

Strange that they should believe on Him because 
he turned water into wine. Sleight-of-hand men do 
that today as a trick. 

One would think it would have been a more godlike 
thing to have turned wine into water, and then endowed 
his disciples with the power to do it, and handed the 
thing down to the ministers of the present generation. 
It might have been a great help to the W. C. T. U. in 
their fight for present-day prohibition. 

Paul No Prohibitionist. 

1 Timothy V., 23 : "Drink no longer water, but use 
a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often 
infirmities. " 

Test Jesus Gave Woman at Well. 

John IV., Verse 16 : "J esus sa ^h unto her, Go, call 
thy husband, and come hither." 

Verse 17 : "The woman answered and said, I have 
no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, 
I have no husband :" 

Verse 18: "For thou hast had five husbands; and 
he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that 
saidst thou truly." 

Verse 19 : "The woman saith unto him, Sir, I per- 
ceive that thou art a prophet." 

Does this not read something like modern "fortune 
telling?" 



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Jesus Says He Is the Messias. 

Verse 25 : "The woman saith unto him, I know that 
Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is 
come, he will tell us all things." 

Verse 26: "Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto 
thee am he." 

Verse 27 : His disciples came and marveled that he 
talked with the woman. 

Verses 28, 29 : "Then the woman went into the city 
and saith to the men, Come see a man, which told me all 
things that ever I did : is not this the Christ ?" 

Easily Convinced. 

Verse 39: "And many of the Samaritans of that 
city believed on him for the saying of the woman, 
which testified, He told me all that ever I did !" 

John IV., Verse 40 : "So when the Samaritans were 
come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry 
with them : and he abode there two days." 

Mediumship of Jesus Proves Him Savior of the 

World. 

Verse 41 : "And many more believed because of his 
own word ;" 

Verse 42: "And said unto the woman, Now we 
believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard 
him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, 
the Savior of the world." 

Thus the "tests" or "signs" Jesus gave proved to 
them that he was the Savior of the world. All true 
mediums are helping to save the world. 

Tests ; Must Have Them. 
Verse 48: "Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye 
see signs and wonders, ye will not believe." 



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Verse 49 : "The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come 
down ere my child die." 

Jesus Heals Absent Patient. 

Verse 50 : "Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way ; thy 
son liveth" (51st to 54th). 

This afterwards proves true. 

John V., 1 to 9 : Jesus heals one at the pool of 
Bethesda, though a multitude of people were there sick. 
As a medium he might have been able to heal only one ; 
as Almighty God he should have been able to heal all 
of them if He were pleased to do so. 

Jesus Upholds Working on Sabbath. 

Verse 14: Sin caused this man's sickness. 
Verse 16: Jews sought to slay Jesus because he 
healed on the Sabbath day. 

Jesus Contradicts Moses. 

Verse 17: "But Jesus answered them, My Father 
worketh hitherto, and I work." 

This was a good answer. God makes the wheat grow, 
the berries to ripen, the birds to hatch, etc. In fact, 
everything in nature goes on the same on the Sabbath 
as on any other day, and if God works on the Sabbath 
why should not His children do the same ? 

Moses Contradicts Jesus. 

Exodus XXXI., Verse 15 : Spirit Jehovah gives or- 
ders through Moses, his medium, as follows : "Six 
days may work be done ; but in the seventh is the sab- 
bath of rest, holy to the Lord : Whosoever doeth any 
work in the sabbath-day he shall surely be put to death." 

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their teachings, the author of this book casts his vote 
for the noble Man of Nazareth. 

Walks on Water. 

John VI. , 16 to 28: Jesus walks on the water, but 
John gives a very brief account of it, not mentioning 
Peter's attempt to do the same, and other important de- 
tails found in this evangelist's writings. 

People Not Convinced; Wanted More Tests. 
Verses 30, 31 : These people were still skeptical after 
witnessing the miracle of the loaves and fishes, and 
"They said therefore unto him, What sign (test) 
showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? 
What dost thou work?" 

They Would Not Believe. 

Chapter XII., 37 : "But though he had done so many 
miracles before them, yet they believed not on him." 

Spirit Control Says He Came from Heaven. 

Chap. VI., Verse 42: "And they said, Is not this 
Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we 
know ? How is it then that he saith, I am come down 
from heaven?" 

Was it not his spirit control speaking through Jesus 
who said this ? We think it was. 

Words of the Spirit Not Believed. 
Verse 63 : Jesus says : "It is the spirit that quick- 
eneth (that inspires); the flesh propheteth nothing: 
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and 
they are life." 



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Verse 64 : "But there are some of you that believe 
not." 

Jesus' Disciples Left Him. 

Verse 66: "From that time many of his disciples 
went back, and walked no more with him." 

His Brethren Did Not Believe in Him. 

The Jews, infidels and all other unbelievers in Jesus 
are condemned by Christians for their unbelief in Him. 
Why should they believe in Him who never saw Him, 
when his own associates, the disciples and brethren did 
not believe in Him. 

John VII., 5 : "For neither did his brethren believe 
in Him." 

Matt. XXVIII. , 17: They saw Jesus, but some 
doubted. 

Mark XVI, 11 : "They believed not." 

Verse 14: "Afterward he (Jesus) appeared unto 
the eleven (apostles) as they sat at meat, and upbraided 
them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because 
they believed not them which had seen him after he 
was risen." 

Luke I., 18, 19, 20 : The angel, with whom Zacharias 
counciled, struck him dumb because of his unbelief. 

John VI., 36 : "But I said unto you, That ye also had 
seen me, and believed not." 

John VI., 64: Jesus said to his disciples: "But 
there are some of you that believe not." 

Verse 66: "Many of his disciples went back, and 
walked no more with him." 

John VIII. , 13 : The Pharisees who saw him and 
heard him did not believe. 



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In John X., 25, Jesus tells the Jews that they "believed 

not." 

Verse 26: He repeats the statement. 

John XII., 37: "But though he had done so many 
miracles before them, yet they believed not on him." 

They were even more skeptical of the works of 
Jesus than the Christian opponents of Spiritualism are 
of the work of mediums of today. And this is a sur- 
prising fact, since Jesus is considered the Creator of 
all things. 

Jesus and the Jews Call Each Other Devils. 

VIII., 44 : Jesus tells the Jews : "Ye are of your 
father, the devil. " 

Verse 48 : The Jews tell Jesus he hath a devil, "Thou 
art a Samaritan, and hast a devil. " 

Verse 51 : "If a man keep my sayings he shall never 
see death" (everlasting life). 

Verse 52 : The Jews say, "Now we know that thou 
hast a devil." 

Jesus Calls These Jews Liars. 

Verse 55 : "And if I should say, I know him not, I 
shall be a liar like unto you." 

Was Jesus Older Than Abraham? 

Verse 57 : "Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art 
not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?" 

Verse 58: "Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I 
say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." 

Was this Jesus' spirit guide speaking through Him? 
Many sayings attributed to Him indicate it, as does 
this scripture. 

Jesus Healed with Clay and Spittle. 
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the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed 
the eyes of the blind man with the clay." (See also 
Mark VIII., 22 to 26.) 

If the above should occur in Michigan today (1922) 
the perpetrator of this terrible act of healing a blind 
man with spittle and mud would be liable to arrest, fine 
and imprisonment under the law, for "mud" and "spit- 
tle" or nearly any other article or process of healing 
is considered practicing medicine in this great state 
of the Union. 

From Verse 7 to 41, the controversy goes on between 
the believers and the unbelievers. 

Jews for Jesus and Against Him. 

John X., 19: "There was a division therefore again 
among the Jews for these sayings." 

Jews Say He Hath a Devil and Is Mad. 

Verse 20 : "And many of them said, He hath a devil, 
and is mad (insane) ; why hear ye him?" 

Verse 21 : "Others said : These are not the words of 
him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of 
the blind?" 

Priests Seek to Kill Jesus. 

John XL, 48 to 57 : This chapter tells how fright- 
ened the chief priests and Pharisees were, fearing that 
Jesus, the Spiritualist, would convert the entire nation 
with his "signs" and "tests" of spirit power, and they 
planned to kill him, one who was so good and so inno- 
cent. But innocent, honest and truth-loving Spiritual- 
ists, all along down the centuries from that day to this, 
have suffered persecution. 



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A Spirit Voice. 

Chap. XII. , Verse 28: "Then came there a voice 
from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will 
glorify it again. " 

Verse 29 : "The people therefore that stood by, and 
heard it, said that it thundered : others said, An angel 
spake to him. ,, 

Would it not be easy to distinguish the voice of a 
spirit from thunder? 

Verse 30: "Jesus answered and said, This voice 
came not because of me, but for your sakes." 

It came to convert them with the truth of spirit pres- 
ence, no doubt. 

Like Some Modern Converts. 

Verse 42 : "Nevertheless among the chief rulers also 
many believed on him (on Jesus and his mediumistic 
work), but because of the Pharisees they did not con- 
fess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue" 
(out of the Jewish church). 

Verse 43 : "For they loved the praise of men more 
than the praise of God." 

How much this is like the modern "twilight Spiritual- 
ist," who is delighted to attend a seance, but instructs 
everyone not to speak of it, because it would injure 
his standing in the church and community, though his 
spirit mother or other spirit friend may have begged 
him to come out and acknowledge its truth. Such a 
person is to be pitied. 

Spiritualism of Jesus — Many Mansions in My 

Father's House. 
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if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare 
a place for you." 

Verse 3 : "And if I go and prepare a place for you, 
I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that 
where I am there ye may be also." 

Verse 4 : "And whither I go ye know, and the way 
ye know." 

This is what Spiritualism teaches. 

Our spirit friends return and tell us they have a 
home prepared for us when we shall enter the spirit 
world. 

More Spiritualism. 

Verse 12 : "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that 
believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also ; 
and greater works than these shall he do ; because I go 
unto my Father." 

These works are of His mediumship and he promises 
those who believe on him they shall do greater medium- 
istic work than he did. 

Jesus Will Send Comforter. 

Verse 16: "And I will pray the Father, and he 
shall give you another Comforter (spirit communion), 
that he may abide with you forever ;" 

Verse 17: "Even the spirit of truth: whom the 
world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither 
knoweth him : but ye know him ; for he dwelleth with 
you, and shall be in you." 

In this Jesus is clearly referring to their mediumship. 

Verse 18: Jesus says, "I will not leave you com- 
fortless : I will come to you." 

Verse 19: "Yet a little while, and the world seeth 
me no more; but ye see me (they are clairvoyant) : 
because I live, ye shall live also." 



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In the 21st verse, Jesus says : "He that loveth me 
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and 
will manifest myself to him." Does this not answer 
the question of the many ministers' subject of dis- 
courses: "Do the dead return ?" 

They Shall Have Spirit Influences. 

Verse 26 : "But the Comforter, which is the Holy 
Ghost (spirit influence, or spirit control) whom the 
Father will send in My name, he shall teach you all 
things, and bring all things to your remembrance, what- 
soever I have said unto you." 

What has the Holy Ghost taught Christians since 
Christ's time? 

Verse 28: "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I 
go away, and come again unto you, . . . for my Father 
is greater than I." 

Jesus fulfilled this promise to return. 

Jesus Instructs His Mediums. 

John XV., Verse 18: "If the world hate you, ye 
know that it hated me." 

Verse 19 : "If ye were of the world, the world would 
love his (its) own ; but because ye are not of the world, 
but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the 
world hateth you." 

Jesus to Send the Comforter. 

Verse 26 : "But when the Comforter is come, whom 
I Will send unto you from the Father, even the spirit of 
truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall tes- 
tify of Me:" 

That is : the spirit of truth, which Jesus promises to 
send shall testify of him. 



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Verse 27 : "And ye also shall bear witness because 
ye have been with me from the beginning." 

Modern mediums are hated and despised by the 
world's people who think they are deceivers preying 
upon innocent and sorrowing humanity. It is the same 
today as it was then ; and the mediums are as innocent 
of wrong now as at that time. The Comforter, the 
Spirit of Truth, comes to mediums today as Jesus fore- 
told in the above. 

This Prophecy of Jesus Fulfilled. 

John XVI., Verse 2 : "They shall put you out of 
the synagogues: yea, the time cometh that whosoever 
killeth you will think that he doeth God service." 

How true this has all come. Thousands of mediums, 
like the apostles, to whom Jesus was speaking, 
have been put to death as witches, possessed of 
devils, as supposed by their persecutors, and they 
who took the lives of these innocent men and 
women — mostly women — thought, as Jesus said, that 
they were doing "God's service." 

This day our inspired mediums, though they are not 
put out of the synagogues, are seldom permitted to hold 
services in them, and "men of God," ministers of the 
gospel, are not permitted to teach the same doctrines 
in many of the churches that Jesus Christ taught, a la 
Dean Edward, Dr. B. F. Austin, Rev. Moses Hull and 
many others who have been turned away or obliged 
to leave the Christian pulpit for these reasons. Thus 
this prophecy of the Medium of Nazareth has been 
literally fulfilled. 

Jesus Foretells Coming of Modern Spiritualism. 
Verse 7: He says: "Nevertheless I tell you the 



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truth ; it is expedient for you that I go away : for if 
I go not away the Comforter will not come unto you, 
but if I depart, I will send him unto you. 

Verse 8 : "And when he is come, he will reprove the 
world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." 

Spirit communion has been an accomplished fact 
through all the ages ; and every religion is founded 
upon its phenomena and truth; and strange to say, 
every religion cites its holy records of spirit appear- 
ances, spirit phenomena, and spirit communion as 
proof of the genuineness and truth of that religion, but 
each of them condemn the claims of other religions as 
to these phenomena, calling their manifestations spu- 
rious, or of the devil. Especially is this true regarding 
their attitude toward Modern Spiritualism. Modern 
Spiritualism fulfills Jesus' statement, in that "it is the 
Comforter," it "reproves the world of sin," makes for 
righteousness, and "guides men unto truth." 

Verse 12: Jesus says: "I have yet many things to 
say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now." 

Spirit Messenger Is the Comforter. 

Verse 13 : "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of Truth, 
is come, he will guide you into all truth : for he shall 
not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, 
that shall he speak : and he will show you things to 
come" (i. e., foretell the future). 

This spirit of truth shall not speak of himself, "but 
whatsoever he shall hear that shall he speak'' 
therefore it is plain to be seen that this spirit of truth 
is a spirit messenger or spirit guide, and this spirit 
messenger is "the Comforter." How true ! How 
beautiful! 



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Do the Dead Return? 

John XX., Verse 11 : "But Mary stood without the 
sepulchre weeping : and as she wept, she stooped down 
and looked into the sepulchre. " 

Mary Saw Two Angels (Angels Are Spirits). 

Verse 12: "And seeth two angels in white sitting, 
the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where 
the body of Jesus had lain." 

These Spirits Communicate. 
Verse 13 : "And they say unto her, Woman, why 
weepest thou ? She saith unto them, Because they have 
taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have 
laid him." 

Jesus Materializes to Mary. 

A Real Spirit Manifestation. 

Verse 14 : "And when she had thus said, she turned 
herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not 
that it was Jesus." 

Spirit Talks to Mary. 
Verse 15 : "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weep- 
est thou? Whom seeketh thou? She, supposing him 
to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have 
borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and 
I will take him away." 

Jesus, Though Dead, Talks to Man. 

Verse 16 : "Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned 
herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni. Which is to say, 
Master." 

Verse 17: "Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; 
for I am not yet ascended to my father : but go to my 



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brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, 
and your Father ; and to my God, and your God." 

Verse 18 : Mary went and told them she had spoken 
with Jesus. 

Again Jesus Materializes. 

Verse 19: The evening of that day Jesus appeared 
to the eleven, when the doors were shut, and said, 
"Peace be unto you." 

Verse 20 : Showed them his hands and side. 

The Spirit Speaks Again to Disciples. 

Verse 21 : "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace 
be unto you : as my father hath sent me, even so send 
I you." 

Holy Ghost Given by Breathing on Them. 

Verse 22 : "And when he had said this he breathed 
on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy 
Ghost" (spirit influence). 

Verse 23 : "Whosoever sins ye remit, they are re- 
mitted unto them ; and whosoever sins ye retain, they 
are retained." 

Thomas, One of Jesus' Apostles, a Skeptic. 

Verse 24: "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called 
Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came." 

Verse 25 : Thomas would not believe the other dis- 
ciples when they told him they had seen Jesus, unless he 
could see the print of the nails in His hands and put 
his finger into them, and thrust his hand into His side 

Jesus Materializes. 

Verse 26 : "And after eight days again his disciples 
were within, and Thomas with them ; then came Jesus, 
the doors being shut, and stood in their midst, and said, 
Peace be unto you." 



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Thomas Converted — A Convincing Spirit Test. 

Verse 27 : "Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither 
thy finger, and behold my hands ; and reach hither thy 
hand, and thrust it into my side : and be not faithless, 
but belie ving." 

Doubting Thomas Convinced. 

Verse 28: "And Thomas answered and said unto 
him, My Lord and my God." 

Evidently he was greatly astonished. 

Verse 29: "Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because 
thou hast seen me, thou hast believed : blessed are they 
that have not seen, and yet have believed." 

A Similar Modern Experience. 

At a seance held at the home of George W. Taylor 
in Lawton, N. Y., in 1882, a spirit appeared in full 
form. A man in the front row whispered to his neigh- 
bor, saying, "That looks like Uncle Otis." He replied, 
in a whisper: "I could tell if I could see his right 
hand." Thereupon the spirit raised his hand palm 
downward, and before the thirty persons present, a very 
large wen grew on the back of the hand of the spirit. 
"My God !" exclaimed Mr. Avery, "that is Uncle Otis. 
Look at that wen on his hand." 

It was explained that Uncle Otis in this life had 
a wen, tumor, or cist on the back of his hand which 
was as large as a hen's egg. 

If Jesus could materialize holes in His hands and in 
His side to convince a doubting Thomas in an ancient 
seance, why could not Uncle Otis materialize a wen 
on the back of his hand to identify himself to his 
friends in a modern seance? If he could not, why not? 



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Tests, Many Given. 

Verse 30: "And many other signs (tests) truly did 
Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not 
written in this book. ,, 

Slate Writing Modern. 

In a seance with Charles E. Watkins at North Col- 
lins, N. Y., in the year 1881, with doors open, the sun 
shining in, we all sat at a table holding two slates, with 
a bit of pencil between them, in our hands above the 
table. We heard the pencil writing and finally three 
raps on the slates, indicating that the writing was 
completed. All let go of the slates but Hon. Norman 
Sprague, of East Aurora, N. Y., who retained them, 
removed the top slate, read the message, and cried 
out, "Merciful God ! that is from my mother and in her 
own handwriting. It is her own signature/' and he 
wept for joy. 

It is easy for Spiritualists to understand how it 
affected the doubting Thomas when he discovered that 
he was really in communication w r ith his master, Jesus. 
But it is not so easy to understand why Thomas, who 
had been the daily companion of Jesus, and had seen the 
demonstration of spiritual phenomena so often through 
his mediumship, should be so skeptical of them when 
Jesus appeared to him. 

Jesus' Fourth Materialization. 

John XXL, Verse 1 : "After these things Jesus 
showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of 
Tiberias ; and on this wise showed he himself ." 

Verse 2 : "There were together Simon, Peter and 
Thomas, called Didymus, and Nathaniel of Cana in 
Galilee, and the sons of Zebidee, and two others of 
his disciples." 



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Verse 3 : They (the disciples) went fishing but 
caught none. 

Verse 4 : Jesus appeared on the shore. 

Verse 5 : Jesus asks if they have any meat. They 
answer no. 

Verse 6 : He tells them to cast the net on the right 
side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore 
and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude. 

Materialized Spirit of Jesus Cooks a Fish Breakfast. 

Verses 7 to 15: Jesus cooks a fish breakfast and 
invites his apostles to dine with him. Some ministers 
and other Christian opponents of Spiritualism have 
declared that modern spirit messages are frivolous and 
puerile. Can anyone of sound mind conceive of Al- 
mighty God frying fish for the breakfast of a few 
ignorant fishermen ? How can one help doubting such 
teachings ? There is nothing like this in Modern Spir- 
itualism. 

Closing Chapter of John. 

Verse 14 says : "This is now the third time that 
Jesus showed himself to His disciples after that he was 
risen from the dead/' 

Expected Jesus to Rule Israel. 

Verses 21 to 24 : Jesus taught, and it was expected 
that some, at least, of the disciples should live until 
He came back from the dead to rule Israel. 

Jesus' Works Would Make Big Book. 

John winds up his gospel as follows : 

Verse 25 : "And there are also many other things 
which Jesus did, the which if they should be written 
every one, I suppose that even the world itself could 
not contain the books that should be written. Amen." 



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This is a very extravagant statement for a gospel 
writer to make, but he was an evangelist and if, like our 
modern evangelists, a la Billy Sunday, it may not be 
counted so great an extreme after all. But if we judge 
John's writings by this last statement, it is doubtful if 
they would stand the test. 

The Books of Acts. 

The Book of Acts is supposed to have been written 
by Luke. Like the Book of Luke, it is addressed 
to Theophilus. 

Acts I., 1 : "The former treatise have I made, 
O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and 
to teach." 

Spirit of Jesus Communicates. 

Until the day in which he was taken up, after that 
he, through the Holy Ghost (spirit power), had given 
commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen. 

That is to say : Jesus, after he had arisen, gave com- 
mandments to the apostles. 

Jesus Materialized Forty Days. 

Verse 3 : "To whom also he showed himself alive 
after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen 
of them forty days, and speaking of the things per- 
taining to the kingdom of God." 

So the dead do come back? 

Jesus Commands Apostles After His Death. 

Acts I., 1, 2, 3, tells about it. 

Wait for Holy Ghost. 

Verses 4, 5 : Jesus told the apostles not to leave 
Jerusalem, but to wait until they "shall be baptized 



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with the Holy Ghost (spirit power) not many days 
hence." 

Verses 6, 7 and 8 : The spirit of Jesus communicates 
with the disciples again. 

Jesus Dematerialized. 
Verse 9: "And when he had spoken these things, 
while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud re- 
ceived him out of their sight." 

Two Spirit Men Appeared to Them. 

Verse 10: "And while they looked steadfastly to- 
ward heaven as he went up, two men stood by them in 
white apparel." 

These were "men," and he who would try to distin- 
guish between angels and spirits of men, though he 
has no scripture to sustain such claim, may take notice 
that these were spirit men dressed in white clothing. 

Verse 11: These two spirits, "Which also said, Ye 
men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? 
This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into 
heaven, shall so come An like manner as ye have seen 
him go into heaven." 

These two "men in white apparel" who appeared 
and communicated when Jesus ascended were spirits of 
men. 

Disciples Hold a Seance in an Upper Room. 

Verse 13 : "And when they were come in, they went 
up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and 
James, and John, and AnHrew, Philip, and Thomas, 
Bartholomew, and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, 
and Simon Zelotes, and Judas, the brother of James." 

Verse 14: "These all continued with one accord in 
prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary 



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the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren (Jesus' 
brothers). 

This made good conditions for a seance. His family 
took part. 

This Was a Large Seance. 

Verse 15 : Peter stood up and said there were about 
one hundred and twenty. The results of this seance 
was the choice of one to fill the place of the apostle 
Judas. 

The Spirit Spake Through David. 

Verse 16 says: "The Holy Ghost (spirit con- 
trol) by the mouth of David spake before concern- 
ing Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus." 

Cast Lots to Learn God's Wishes. 

Verse 23 : "They nominated two for the office : 
Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, 
and Matthias." 

Verse 24 : "And they prayed, and said : Thou, 
Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, show 
whether of these two thou hast chosen." 

Verse 26 : "And they gave forth their lots ; and the 
lot fell upon Matthias ; and he was numbered with the 
eleven apostles." 

Pentecostal Feast a Regular Spiritualist Seance. 

Acts II., Verse 1 : "And when the day of Pentecost 
was fully come, they were all of one accord in one 
place" (i. e., in a condition of mental harmony, which 
is essential to good results in any spiritual seance). 

Verse 2 : "And suddenly there came a sound from 
heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all 
the house where they were sitting" (where they were 
holding their sitting). 



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Acts II. , 3 : "And there appeared unto them cloven 
tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. ,, 

It is perfectly clear to Spiritualists that these cloven 
tongues of fire were spirit lights, and such as are very 
common in Modern Spirit seances. The "rushing 
wind" is also often felt in those seances. 

Verse 4: "And they were all filled with the Holy 
Ghost (controlled by the spirits) and began to speak 
with other tongues (not their own tongues) as the 
spirit gave them utterance." 

Evidently they were controlled by spirits of different 
tribes and nationalities, who spoke these different 
tongues through these mediums. 

Verse 5 : "And there were dwelling in Jerusalem 
Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven." 

All nations were there so far as the writer knew. 

Verse 6: "Now when this was noised abroad the 
multitude came together, and were confounded, because 
that every man heard them speak in his own language." 

Verses 7 and 8: They "marveled" because these 
Galileans could speak all these languages. 

It is not so strange or wonderful to Spiritualists, 
because many mediums speak in different tongues or 
languages today. A German spirit may sometimes 
speak German through a mortal medium who does not 
speak German. A Frenchman or other nationality may 
speak his own language through certain mediums if 
he knows how to control one for that manifestation. 
The writer speaks from knowledge because he has been 
used by spirits to speak in different languages with 
which he was not acquainted, therefore he knows this 
is possible.* 



* See "A Future Life Demonstrated," by Rev. E. W. Sprague, p. 69. 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 309 

The 9th, 10th and 11th verses of this chapter name 
about eighteen different tongues these mediums were 
controlled to speak. 

The would-be wise skeptics were there and had their 
say, which showed their simple-mindedness, just as 
they show it today in such matters. They explained 
these phenomena as follows : 

Verse 13 : "Others mocking said, These men are 
full of new wine." They were as silly as some modern 
skeptics. 

Peter Gives a Discourse on Spiritualism. 

Verse 14 : "But Peter, standing up with the eleven, 
lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of 
Judea, and all ye that dwell in Jerusalem, be this 
known unto you, and hearken to my words :" 

Verse 15 : "For these are not drunken, as ye sup- 
pose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day." 

So early in the morning they had not had time to 
become intoxicated is what Peter is supposed to mean. 

Verse 16 : "But this is that which was spoken by the 
prophet Joel." 

Prophecy of Coming of Modern Spiritualism. 

Verse 17 : "And it shall come to pass in the last days, 
saith God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh : 
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and 
your young men shall see visions, and your old men 
shall dream dreams." 

Verse 18: "And on my servants and on my hand- 
maidens I will pour out in those days of my spirit; 
and they shall prophesy." (See also Joel II., 28, 29.) 

The above is a plain and clear prophecy of the com- 
ing of Modern Spiritualism. And he who believes this 



310 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

story of the Pentecostal feast is a Spiritualist, and, of 
course, he who does not believe it is an infidel. Spir- 
itualists believe it. 

Jesus a Man and a Medium, According to Peter. 

Verse 22 : "Ye men of Israel, hear these words : 
Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you 
by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by 
him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know." 

This is Peter's statement of who and what Jesus was, 
and this is what most Spiritualists believe. Like all 
other true mediums, his spirit phenomena, including 
tests (signs), proved that his work was good and of 
God, and this shows that he was a man, not God. 

Pentecostal Seance and Peter's Lecture. 
Converts Three Thousand People. 

Was it the phenomena of speaking in tongues, the 
spirit lights, and the other physical phenomena of this 
great seance ; or was it the philosophy of Spiritualism 
taught in Peter's inspired sermon, or was it all of 
these together, that converted . these three thousand 
persons that day? Peter was a medium for both the 
physical and mental phases of mediumship, as is shown 
in this Bible record of this seance, and as is shown in 
many other scripture passages as well. It always takes 
both the phenomena and philosophy of Spiritualism to 
make a well developed Spiritualist. Acts II., 41. 

Peter an Ancient Billy Sunday. 

Peter was an ancient Billy Sunday, though Peter had 
facts and genuine spirit phenomena with which to win 
converts, and Billy Sunday has neither in his religion, 
but depends largely upon the use of slang to attract 



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his audiences and the fear of hell to convert them. 
Peter used neither of these. 

Spirit of Jesus Produces the Phenomena at 
Pentecostal Feast, Says Peter. 
Acts II., 32, 33 : Peter states that Jesus, who was 
then in the spirit world, "shed forth" these phenomena 
of the Pentecostal feast, "which ye now see and hear." 
This was a Spiritualistic seance, like unto many of 
these modern times, and the manifestations were pro- 
duced by spirits, this scripture states. 

Mediumship Promised All Converts. 
Verse 38: Peter promised all who repented and 
were baptized should receive the Holy Ghost (spirit 
power). This promise appears to be for all mankind. 
(See also 39th verse.) 

Disciples and Converts Communists. 
Verse 39 says : "For the promise is unto you, and to 
your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many 
as the Lord our God shall call." 

Three Thousand Converts in One Day. 

Verse 41 : "Then they that gladly received his word 
were baptized : and the same day there were added 
unto them about three thousand souls." 

Verse 43 : "And many wonders and signs were done 
by the apostles." 

They were spirit mediums and their tests, called 
"signs," helped to make these converts. 

Communism Practiced. 
Verse 44: "And all that believed w r ere together, 
and had all things common ;" 



312 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Verse 45 : "And sold their possessions and goods, 
and parted them to all men, as every man had need." 

If all of the three thousand converts sold their pos- 
sessions and turned the receipts therefor over, it must 
have been a good day's work for the apostles who 
received it. Was the gospel free and without price in 
those days ? 

Acts, Chapter III., tells the story of the healing of 
a beggar who was born a cripple. 

Hypnotism Used by Peter and John. 

Verse 4 says : "And Peter fastening his eyes upon 
him with John, said, Look on us." 

Verse 7 : "And he took him by the hand (evidently 
magnetizing him), and lifted him up : and immediately 
his feet and ankle bones received strength." 

Verse 8 : "And he leaping up stood, and walked, and 
entered with them into the temple," etc. 

Verse 16: Peter gives the spirit Jesus the credit 
of healing this poor cripple. 

Magnetic and spiritual healing is wonderful. Through 
its application by Spiritualists it is healing thousands 
in every civilized country the world over today. These 
Spiritualist healers' rooms in Detroit are crowded daily 
with people who believe in it, a large majority of whom 
are members of Christian churches. 

Five Thousand More Converts Made. 

Acts, Chapter IV., Verse 4, says: "Howbeit many 
of them which heard the word believed; and the number 
of the men was about five thousand" 

We are not told how many women converts there 
were. 

There were five thousand more converts. They were 
doing a big business and a profitable one. 



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Communism ; More of It. 

Verse 32 : "And the multitude of them that believed 
were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any 
of them that aught of the things which he possessed 
was his own ; but they had all things in common." 

Verse 34 : "Neither was there any among them that 
lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or 
houses sold them, and brought the prices of things that 
were sold." 

Verse 35 : "And laid them down at the apostles' feet : 
and distribution was made unto every man according 
to his need." 

Verses 36, 37 : "And Joses, having land, sold it, and 
brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet." 

Gospel of Jesus Not Free. 

As every new convert sold all his possessions and 
the apostles divided them with "all men as every man 
had need." 

It looks as though these mediums were pretty well 
paid for their services; anyhow their needs were all 
well provided for. 

If the three thousand converts made in one day and 
the five thousand another day sold all their possessions 
and turned all the money into the treasury of the twelve 
apostles, were they preaching the gospel, and preaching 
mediumship to prove its truth, "without money and 
without price" ? 

Peter and John Arrested. 

The apostles were making too many converts to please 
the Jewish priests and the Sadducees, so something must 
be done. 



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Verse 2 : "Being grieved that they taught the people, 
and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the 
dead" (spirit return). 

Acts IV., 3 : "And they laid hands on them, and put 
them in hold unto the next day : for it was now even- 
tide." 

Took them at night and put them in jail, just as they 
did mediums in New York recently. Priests and Sad- 
ducees did it. 

Verse 4 tells of the five thousand converts mentioned 
heretofore. 

Peter Under Spirit Control Again. 

Verse 8: "Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost 
(under spirit control), said unto them, Ye rulers of the 
people, and elders of Israel," etc. 

Heals the Impotent Man by Power of Spirit of Jesus. 
Peter Says. 

Verse 9: "If we this day be examined of the good 
deed done to the impotent man by what means he is 
made whole ;" 

Verse 10 : "Be it known unto you all, and to all the 
people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of 
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from 
the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before 
you whole" (healed). 

Peter and John Uneducated. 

Verse 13 : "Now when they saw the boldness of 
Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned 
and ignorant men, they marveled ; and they took knowl- 
edge of them, that they had been with Jesus." 

Verse 14 : "And beholding the man which was healed 
standing with them, they could say nothing against it." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 315 

Ancient Spiritualism, or modern Christianity, like 
Modern Spiritualism, produced results, healed the sick, 
gave spirit messages, and materialized spirits to the view 
of men, and demonstrated its claims. 

Verse 16 : The apostles' opponents acknowledged that 
this was "a notable miracle" and they "could not 
deny it." 

Three Mediums Threatened by Priests and Officers. 

Verse 17: "But that it spread no further among 
the people, let us straightly threaten them, that they 
speak henceforth to no man in his name." 

Here the "high priest," and "his kindred," the officers 
of the law, were bound to stop these mediums. How 
like some present-day ministers and officers of the law. 

Verse 18: "And they called them, and commanded 
them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus." 

Verse 19: "But Peter and John answered and said 
unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to 
hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye." 

Verse 20: "For we cannot but speak the things 
which we have seen and heard." 

Spiritualists of today feel likewise. Why should we 
forego healing the sick, comforting the sorrowing by 
receiving messages from their dead friends and dem- 
onstrating the truth of a future life for mankind? be- 
cause the priesthood and the elders object to our teach- 
ing its grand truths, which incidentally contradict some 
of their dogmatic creeds of total depravity, vicarious 
atonement, physical resurrection, etc. Some of the 
priesthood — Catholic and Protestant — are the real in- 
stigators of most of the laws against the practice of 
mediumship. They think Peter and John w r ere cruelly 



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wronged in this case, while they go on fighting Modern 
Spiritualism, persecuting Spiritualists and mediums. 

Verse 21 : "So when they had further threatened 
them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might 
punish them, because of the people : for all men glori- 
fied God for that which was done." 

It was not the people of that day who opposed the 
practice of mediumship. It was the church that did it, 
the same as today. 

Physical Manifestations by Spirits. 

Verse 31 : "And when they had prayed, the place 
was shaken where they were assembled together; and 
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost (spirit power), 
and they spake the word of God with boldness. ,, 

The above is a very common experience with Spir- 
itualists. 

Ananias and Sapphira Lie to the Spirits. 

Acts V., Verse 1 : "But a certain man named 
Ananias with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession. " 

Verse 2 : "And kept back part of the price, his wife 
being privy to it, and brought a part and laid it at the 
apostles' feet." 

Ananias Struck Dead for Lying to the Spirit. 

Verse 3 : "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan 
filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost (spirit influ- 
encing) and to keep back part of the price of the land?" 

Peter must have received this fact from the spirit 
friends, as no one had told him. 

Verse 4 : Peter accuses him of lying to God. 

Verse 5 : Ananias fell down dead. 

Verse 6: They carried him out and buried him. 



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Ananias' Wife, Sapphira, Killed Also. 

Verse 7 : Three hours after came his wife, not know- 
ing what her husband had done. 

Verse 8 : She told the same story. 

Verse 9 : "Then Peter said unto her, How is it that 
ye have agreed together to tempt the spirit of the Lord ? 
behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband 
are at the door, and shall carry thee out." 

Verse 10: "Then fell she down straightway at his 
feet, and yielded up the ghost," and they buried her by 
her husband. 

To Those Who Believe This Story. 

Was it Peter, the Holy Ghost, or God who killed 
both of these good people for giving but half the price 
of their possessions to the apostles? Whoever did it, 
did a great injustice to them. But it probably caused 
others to give their all. 

Verse 12 : "And by the hands of the apostles were 
many signs and wonders (spirit phenomena) wrought 
among the people ;" 

Verse 14 : "And believers were the more added unto 
the Lord, multitudes both of men and women." 

Were the Apostles Commercial Mediums? 

It certainly looks as though the apostles were out 
after the money. They made thousands of converts 
who sold all they possessed and put the money in their 
hands. And Ananias and Sapphira, his wife, were 
both struck dead for keeping back a part of the money 
received for their possessions. 

Is this not commercial mediumship with a vengeance ? 
and with two murders attached, if the story is true? 
Nothing like it ever occurred in Modern Spiritualism. 



318 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Christians uphold the killing of Ananias and Sapphira 
for not giving their all to these mediums, but condemn 
modern mediums for accepting one dollar for a reading, 
calling it commercial mediumship. This is not Spirit- 
ualism. It is Spiritism. Oh, the injustice of it! 

Healed by Peter's Shadow. 

Verse 15: "They brought the sick into the streets, 
laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow 
of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them." 

Verse 16 : A multitude came out of the cities round 
about unto Jerusalem bringing sick folks, "and they 
were healed every one." 

Is It a Crime to Heal People by Spirit Power? 

Verse 17: "Then the high priest rose up, and all 
that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), 
and were filled with indignation." 

Mediums Imprisoned. 
Verse 18: "And laid their hands on the apostles, 
and put them in the common prison." 
\ This same spirit has often been manifested toward 

modern spiritual healers. 

An Angel Releases Them From Prison. 
This Was a Dark Seance. 

Verse 19: "But the angel of the Lord by night 
opened the prison doors and brought them forth." 

Verse 21 : The high priest called the council together 
next morning and went to the prison. 

Verses 22 and 23 : They were not there and the doors 
were shut and guards around the door. 

Verse 25 : Someone told them the prisoners were 
teaching in the temple. 



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Again Appstles Are Arrested. 

Verse 26 : "Then went the captain with the officers, 
and brought them without violence : for they feared 
the people lest they should have been stoned. " 

Verses 27 and 28 : They were taken into court and 
questioned. 

Verse 29: Peter's plea was: "We ought to obey 
God rather than men." 

Would Slay Apostles. 

Verse 33 : This high priest and the chief priests took 
council to slay the apostles. 

Verse 34: A lawyer took their part and defended 
them, and persuaded them not to kill them. 

Verse 38 says: "For if this council or this work be 
of men, it will come to naught." 

Verse 39 : "But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow 
it : lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." 

Apostles Beaten. 

Verse 40: The apostles were beaten (whipped) and 
commanded not to preach any more. 

Verse 42 : "And daily in the temple, and in every 
house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ." 

In this they were just like modern mediums whom 
persecution does not stop. 

Stephen a Medium. 

Acts VL, Verse 1 : "The number of the disciples 
was multiplied," and they made many converts not- 
withstanding church persecution. 

Verse 5 : And the saying pleased the whole multi- 
tude : and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and 
the Holy Ghost" (spirit power). 



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Priests Are Converted. 
Verse 7 : Disciples multiplied, "And a great company 
of priests were obedient to the faith." 

Stephen's Phenomena Converts Them. 

Verse 8 : "And Stephen, full of faith and power, did 
great wonders and miracles among the people. " 

Verse 10: "And they were not able to resist the 
wisdom and the spirit by which he spake." 

He had a wise spirit control whom they could not 
resist. 

Transfiguration. 

Verses 11 to 14: Men swear falsely (suborned men) 
against Stephen and his spiritual work. 

Verse 15 says : "And all that sat in the council, look- 
ing steadfastly on him (Stephen), saw his face as it had 
been the face of an angel." 

We have seen mediums transfigured under spirit con- 
trol in the same manner. 

Stephen Arrested — His Speech Before the Sanhedrim 
— His Execution. 

Stephen was a spirit medium, placed under "full" 
control and has a vision. 

VII., 51: Stephen accuses the Israelites and their 
fathers with resisting the Holy Ghost (spirit influence 
or control) and persecuting the mediums. 

Verse 52 : He accuses their fathers of slaying the 
prophets (mediums), and themselves as being mur- 
derers. 

Verse 53 says they received the law by disposition of 
angels. 

Verses 55, 56: Stephen under full control has a 
vision. 



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Stephen Stoned to Death. 

Verse 57 : "Then they cried out with a loud voice, 
and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one 
accord." 

Saul Held Their Clothes. 

Verse 58 : "And cast him out of the city, and stoned 
him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a 
young man's feet, whose name was Saul." 

Verse 59: "And they stoned Stephen, calling upon 
God, and saying Lord Jesus receive my spirit." 

Verse 60 : "And he kneeled down, and cried with a 
loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And 
when he had said this, he fell asleep." 

And Stephen, like Jesus and thousands of others, died 
a martyr to the truth of Spiritualism and Mediumship. 

Saul After Assisting at Stephen's Execution 
Changed His Name to Paul. 
Acts VIII. , Verse 1 : "And Saul was consenting unto 
his death. And at that time there was a great persecu- 
tion against the church which was at Jerusalem; and 
they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions 
of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles." 

Verse 2 : "And devout men carried Stephen to his 
burial, and made great lamentation over him." 

Saul Persecuted Christians. 

Verse 3 : "As for Saul, he made havock of the 
church, entering into every house, and haling men and 
woman, committed them to prison." 

Oh, what terrible persecutions the poor Christians 
suffered at the hand of the church of that day ! 

Saul — later known as St. Paul — sent Christians, both 
men and women, to prison. 



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All Filled With Holy Ghost. 

Acts II., 4, says : "And they were all filled with the 
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, 
as the spirit gave them utterance. ,, 

Acts IV., 8: "Then Peter, filled with the Holy 
Ghost, said unto them," etc. 

Acts IV., 31 : "And when they had prayed, the place 
was shaken where they were assembled together, and 
they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake 
the word of God with boldness." 

Then Follows a Contradiction. 

Acts VIII., 14, says : "Now when the apostles which 
were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the 
word of God (the spirit message), they sent unto them 
Peter and John :" 

Verse 15 : "Who, when they were come down, 
prayed for them; that they might receive the Holy 
Ghost:" 

Verse 16 : "For as yet he was fallen upon none of 
them : only they were baptized in the name of the Lord 
Jesus Christ." 

Is this not a contradiction by St. Luke? or is it an 
error in dates ? 

Simon the Sorcerer Attempts to Buy Spiritual Gifts. 

Verse 18 : "And when Simon saw that through lay- 
ing on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, 
he offered them money." 

Verse 19 : "Saying, Give me also this power, that on 
whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy 
Ghost." 

Peter True to His Mediumship. 

Verse 20 : Peter, offended, says : "Thy money per- 



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ish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift 
of God may be purchased with money." 

Simon is but one of a class who are with us today, 
who would be Spiritualists at once if there were more 
money in it, and many of them are paying money to a 
certain class of mediums, expecting them to endow 
them with spiritual gifts, most of whom will never get 
them. The "gifts," or faculties of mediumship, cannot 
be bought or sold. 

Following this, Peter tells him he is in no condition 
to receive spiritual gifts, and gives him instructions 
how to live righteously. 

Philip a Medium for Levitation. 

Verse 26 : "The angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, 
saying, Arise and go toward the south, unto the way 
that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is 
desert." 

Verses 27 and 28 : An Ethiopian man was sitting in 
his chariot reading. 

Spirit Speaks Again to Philip. 

Verse 29 : "Then the spirit said unto Philip, Go near, 
and join thyself to this chariot." 

Verse 38 : After preaching to this Ethiopian Philip 
baptized him. 

Levitation. 

Verse 39: "And when they came up out of the 
water, the spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that 
the eunuch saw him no more and he went on his way 
rejoicing." 

Verse 40: "But Philip was found at Azotus (about 
30 miles away), and passing through he preached in all 
the cities, till he came to Ceserea." 



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Modern mediums have been carried around the room 
by spirit power, and gravitation is often overcome by 
this method, but there is no record of their being car- 
ried thirty miles. 

One Vision Converts Paul. 

Acts IX., Verse 1 : "And Saul (afterwards called 
Paul), yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter 
against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high 
priest," 

Verse 2 : "And desired of him letters to Damascus 
to the synagogues, that if he found any (Christians) in 
the way, whether they were men or women, he might 
bring them bound unto Jerusalem. " 

Verse 3 : "And as he journeyed, he came near 
Damascus : and suddenly there shined round about him 
a light from heaven." 

Paul Clairaudient. 

Verse 4 : "And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice 
saying unto him, Saul, Saul, Saul, why persecutest 
thou me ?" 

Verse 5 : And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? "And 
the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest ; it is 
hard for thee to kick against the pricks." 

Verse 6: "And he, trembling and astonished, said, 
Lord, what wilt thou have me do ? And the Lord said 
unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be 
told thee what thou must do." 

Materialized Voice of Jesus a Spirit. 

Verse 7 : "And the men which journeyed with him 
stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man." 
Jesus was dead. Do the dead return? 



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Saul Another of Jesus' Mediums. 

Acts IX., 8 : This made Saul blind and they led him 
to Damascus. 

Verse 9: "And he was three days without sight, 
and neither did eat nor drink." 

Spirit Gives Name of Street. 

Verses 10 and 11: Ananias of Damascus had a 
vision. The spirit of Jesus told him to go to Saul and 
named the street and the man of the house where he 
should find him. 

Verse 12 : This spirit told him that Saul had also a 
vision of Ananias coming and giving him his sight. 

Verses 13, 14: Ananias told the spirit he was afraid 
of Saul. He appears to have known him by reputation. 

Jesus Selects Paul as His Medium. 

Verse 15 : But Jesus told him that Saul had become 
a "chosen vessel" of his. That is, he had become his 
medium. 

Verse 17: "Ananias went and told Saul that Jesus 
who had appeared unto him had sent him, that he might 
receive his sight, "and be filled with the Holy Ghost" 
(spirit power). 

Paul's Own People Sought to Kill Him. 

Verse 18: Saul received his sight and was baptized. 

Following this, Saul preached in the temple there. 

The Jews, his own people, sought to kill him. The 
disciples let him down by the wall, in a basket, and 
he went to Jerusalem. 

What Christian Authority Says of Paul's Conversion. 

Dr. William Smith, of the University of London, in 



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his Dictionary of the Bible, page 700, speaking of 
Paul's conversion, says : 

"The sudden light from heaven; the voice of Jesus 
speaking with authority to His persecutor ; Saul struck 
to the ground, blinded, overcome ; the three days' sus- 
pense; the coming of Ananias as a messenger of the 
Lord; and Saul's baptism, — these were the leading 
features, in the eyes of the historian, of the great 
event, and in these we must look for the chief signifi- 
cance of the conversion. For we must not forget that, 
whatever we hold as to the external nature of the 
phenomena we are considering, the whole transaction 
was essentially, in any case, a spiritual communication. 
That the Lord Jesus manifested Himself as a living 
person to the man Saul, and spoke to him so that his 
very words could be understood, is the substantial fact 
declared to us. The purport of the three narratives is, 
that an actual conversation took place between Saul 
and the Lord Jesus. It is remarkable that in none of 
them is Saul said to have seen Jesus. How it was that 
Saul "saw" and "heard" we are quite unable to deter- 
mine." 

Spiritualists can truly say that they do know how he 
"saw" and "heard" — if the story is true— if Christians 
do not know, and the philosophy of Spiritualism can and 
does explain how these phenomena are produced. 

He goes on saying: "The light, and the sound or 
voice were both different from ordinary phenomena 
with which Saul and his companions were familiar, is 
unquestionably implied in the narrative. It is also 
implied that they were specially significant to Saul, and 
not to those with him. We gather, therefore, that these 
were real outward phenomena, through which Saul was 



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made inwardly sensible of a Presence revealed to him 
alone." 

Does "inward presence" explain the voice heard by 
the men who journeyed with him? We think not. 

Acts, Chapter IX., tells the story of Paul's conversion. 
His only reference to the outward phenomena attending 
his conversion is found in 1 Cor. XV., 8, "Last of all 
He was seen of me," and in Gal. I., 15, he says : "But 
when it pleased God, who separated me from my 
mother's womb and called me by his grace." 

Verse 16: "To reveal his son in me, that I might 
preach him among the heathen : immediately I con- 
ferred not with flesh and blood." 

Evidently he conferred with and was guided by the 
spirit of Jesus. Such are the teachings of Spiritualism. 

Verse 26: The disciples were all afraid of Saul 
when he wanted to join them. They did not believe 
in his conversion. But when Paul proved himself a 
true convert and preached Jesus and Him crucified they 
took him with them. 

Verse 33 : Peter healed ^Eneas, who w r as bedridden 
eight years of palsy. 

Peter Raises the Dead Tabitha. 

Verse 40 : "But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled 
down, and prayed ; and turning him to the body said, 
Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes : and when she 
saw Peter she sat up." 

Verse 41 : "And he gave her his hand, and lifted 
her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, 
presented her alive." 

How did the writer of this story get the literal 
details of what Peter said and what both of them did, 
since Peter had put them all out of the room? Let us 



328 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

be honest with ourselves, kind reader, for we want 
the truth. Jesus said: "The truth shall make you 
free." Did Peter raise the dead or was the woman in 
a trance ? 

This Whole Chapter Is Spiritualism. 

Acts X., Verses 1, 2 and 3 : Cornelius, a good man, 
has a vision, and the angel of God came and talked to 
him. 

Verse 5 : This spirit told him to send men to Joppa 
to call on Simon Peter. 

Verse 6 : The spirit told him who Peter lived with, 
and where to find the house, and said Peter "shall tell 
thee what to do." 

Verse 8 : Cornelius sent men to Joppa. 

Verse 9: About the time they arrived there Peter 
had gone up on the house top to pray. 

Peter Falls Into a Trance. 

Verse 10 : "And he became very hungry and would 

have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell in a 
trance." 

Peter Was Clairvoyant. 

Verses 11 and 12 tell what he saw. 

Peter Was Clairaudient. 
Verses 13 and 15 : A spirit voice spake to him. 
Verse 16 : Three times the spirit voice spake to him. 

Peter Doubts the Meaning of This Vision. 

Verse 17 : Peter doubted the meaning of the vision, 
and the men Cornelius sent "stood at the gate." 

Verse 18: "And called, and asked whether Simon 
which was surnamed Peter were lodged there." 

Spirit Tells Peter Three Men Seek Him. 
Verse 19: "While Peter thought on the vision (he 



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had just had) the spirit said unto him, Behold, three 
men seek thee." 

Verse 20 : "Arise, therefore, and get thee down, and 
go with them, doubting nothing : for I have sent them." 

Verse 21 : Peter went down, told them he was the 
one they were seeking and asked : "What is the cause 
wherefore ye are come?" 

Verse 22 : They told him Cornelius sent them. 

Verse 23 : Peter took them in and lodged them, and 
on the morrow he took some of his friends and went 
with them. 

Another Great Seance and Spiritualist Meeting. 

Verse 24: Next day after that they arrived at 
Cesarea and Cornelius had invited in a company of 
friends. 

Verse 29 : Peter tells the company that he came 
to them as soon as sent for, without gainsaying (with- 
out questioning). 

Spirits Called by Different Names. 
Verse 30 : Cornelius tells of the "man in bright cloth- 
ing" coming to him (a spirit). In the third verse this 
man spirit was called "An angel of God" ; fourth verse, 
"Lord" ; seventh verse, "Angel" ; nineteenth verse^ 
"Spirit" ; twenty-second verse, "Holy angel" ; thirtieth 
verse, "Man." So it must have been the spirit of a 
man, as we Spiritualists claim. We have many such 
experiences as this one recorded in this tenth chapter 
of Acts, and they have always proved to be spirits of 
the so-called dead who plan and carry out the demon- 
strations as are recorded here. Spiritualists can believe 
this story because they knozv it is possible for spirits to 
do those things. 



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This was a great and good meeting. Peter preached 
a good sermon, and they had a fine seance. 

Whole Congregation Controlled. 

Verse 44 says : "While Peter yet spake these words, 
the Holy Ghost (spirit control) fell on all them which 
heard the word." 

That is, every one of that congregation was controlled 
by the spirits, "Jews and Gentiles." 

Verse 45 : "And they of the circumcision which be- 
lieved were astonished, as many as came with Peter, 
because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the 
gift of the Holy Ghost (mediumship). 

Verse 46: "For they (those of the circumcision) 
heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then 
answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these 
should not be baptized which have received the Holy 
Ghost (who have been controlled), as well as we?" 

Verse 48: "Then he commanded them to be bap- 
tized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him 
to tarry many days." 

Either a Spiritualist or an Infidel. 
With the exception of a whole congregation being 
controlled by spirits at once, Modern Spiritualism re- 
cords many similar experiences like the above which 
prove the possibility of the truth of this story. He 
who does not believe this story of Peter, Cornelius, and 
the spirits is an infidel; and he who does believe it 
true is a Spiritualist. It cannot be otherwise. 

Peter Tells Disciples the Whole Story. 

Acts XL, Verses 1 to 19, tells of Peter going up to 
Jerusalem, and his controversy with the other apostles 



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over his having held meetings with the uncircumcised. 
Peter explained about the wonderful spiritual meet- 
ing at Cesarea, how the Holy Ghost (the spirits) con- 
trolled the Gentiles, etc., and when they heard his story 
they were satisfied, because the spirits had done it all 
themselves. 

Dark Seance — Peter Released from Prison by 
Spirits. 

Acts XII., Verses 1 to 4 : Herod "killed James, the 
brother of John, with the sword and put Peter in prison, 
intending his doom." 

Verse 5 : "Peter was therefore kept in prison : but 
prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto 
God for him. ,, 

Verse 6 : "And when Herod would have brought him 
forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two 
soldiers, bound with chains : and the keepers before 
the doors kept the prison. " 

An Angel Liberated Peter. 

Verse 7 : "And, behold, the angel of the Lord came 
upon him (controlled him) and a light (a spirit light) 
shined in the prison: and he (the spirit) smote Peter 
on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. 
And his chains fell off from his hands." 

Verse 8 : "And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, 
and bind on thy sandals : and so he did. And he saith 
unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me." 

Verse 9 : "And he went out, and followed him ; and 
wist not (knew not) that it was true which was done 
by the angel ; but thought he saw a vision." 

Mediums are often dazed, as was Peter, after coming 
out of the control. 



332 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Physical Phenomena. 
Verse 10: "When they were past the first and the 
second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth 
unto the city; which opened to them of his (its) own 
accord : and they went out, and passed on through one 
street; and forthwith the angel departed from him." 

Peter Under Spirit Control. 

Verse 11 says : "And when Peter was come to him- 
self, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord 
hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the 
hand of Herod, and from all the expectations of the 
people of the Jews." 

This was a real Spiritualist dark seance. Peter was 
the medium through whom the angel or spirit operated, 
lifting him up from between the two soldiers, striking 
off his chains, leading him to the door, or gate, of the 
city which was opened by spirit power, allowing the 
prisoner to walk out to freedom. 

Christians, to be Christians, must believe in the truth 
of this recorded seance. They declare that they do be- 
lieve it, and try to make themselves believe that they 
believe it. 

Dr. Rand Released from Prison. 
But when Christians are told that in the year 1855, 
Dr. Luke P. Rand and the Davenport brothers were 
locked up in the prison at Oswego, N. Y., and for the 
same offense for which Peter was incarcerated, namely, 
for demonstrating a life for mankind beyond the grave ; 
and that Dr. Rand was liberated by the spirits, the 
Davenport brothers made to remain in jail, and that 
Dr. Rand appeared O. K. in the court room of his own 
accord the next day, some Christians may not believe 
this. The occurrence is of too recent date. 



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Our authority for the above statement is what Rev. 
Moses Hull told us of Dr. Rand's release from the 
Oswego, N. Y., prison; and from his published state- 
ments regarding it. In his book, "Encyclopedia of 
Spiritualism/' page 315, in speaking of Peter's release 
from prison, he says : 

"This was a powerful physical manifestation, but 
does the reader observe that it was in the night? If 
spirits could take the apostle out of prison in the night, 
as is here recorded, why could they not take Luke P. 
Rand out of jail at Oswego, N. Y., as it is recorded 
they did in 1855? In both instances the officers made 
about the same report. It was as follows : "The prison 
truly found we shut with all safety; and the keepers 
standing without before the doors ; but when we had 
opened, we found no man within." 

Mr. Hull mentions the case of Dr. Rand again on 
page 324, as follows : 

"The prison doors were opened and Peter was let 
out in exactly the same manner as was Dr. Rand re- 
leased from the Oswego, N. Y., jail in 1855." 

Peter Delivered from Prison Goes to Friends. 

Verse 12: "And when he (Peter) had considered 
the thing (after he had come to himself), he said, Now 
I know of a surety, that the Lord has sent his angel, 
and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and 
from all the expectation of the people of the Jews." 

Verse 12 : He went to the house of Mary the mother 
of John, "where many were gathered together praying." 

Verse 13 : "And as Peter knocked at the door of the 
gate, a damsel came to hearken, named Rhoda." 

Verse 14: "And when she knew Peter's voice, she 



334 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in and told 
how Peter stood at the gate." 

Early Christians Believed in Spirit Raps. 

Verse 15 : "And they said unto her, Thou art 
mad (insane). But she constantly affirmed that it was 
even so. Then said they, It is his angel." 

Did they think it was Peter's spirit guide? or that it 
was Peter's own spirit, and that he was dead ? It must 
have been one or the other. If so they believed that it 
was a spirit knocking at the door (spirit raps). 

Verse 16: "But Peter continued knocking: and 
when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were 
astonished." 

Verse 19: Herod commanded that Peter's keepers 
be put to death. 

Verse 21 : Herod made an oration. 

Verse 22 : "And the people gave a shout, saying, It is 
the voice of a god, and not a man." 

Herod Was Killed by an Angel. 

Verse 23 : "And immediately the angel of the Lord 
smote him because he gave not God the glory: and 
he was eaten of worms, and gave up the Ghost." 

Isn't this wonderful ? 

No report has ever reached us of a case of a spirit 
or angel committing murder by killing a man in these 
days of Modern Spiritualism. The angels of Modern 
Spiritualism teach that murder is wrong, and the God 
of Spiritualism never sent angels to commit murder. 

Holy Ghost Talks to Them. 
Chapter XIIL, Verse 2 : "As they ministered to the 
Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost (spirit control) said, 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 335 

Separate me, Barnabas and Saul for the work where- 
unto I have called them." 

Some Christian juries doubt spirits speaking to mod- 
ern mediums, but assume to believe this Holy Ghost 
(spirit control) spoke to these prophets or mediums. 

Spirit Sends Them Away. 

Verse 4: "So they, being sent forth by the Holy 
Ghost (spirit control), departed unto Seleucia," etc. 
Spirits directed the work of the apostles. 

Fraudulent Mediums of Old. 
Verse 6: "And when they had gone through the 
isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false 
prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar- Jesus." 

The Lord or Paul Struck Him Blind. 

Verse 9: "Then Saul (who also is called Paul), 
filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him," 

Verse 10: "And said, O full of all subtlety and all 
mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all 
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right 
ways of the Lord ?" 

Verse 11 : "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord 
is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun 
for a season. And immediately there fell on him a 
mist and a darkness ; and he went about seeking some 
to lead him by the hand." 

Paul evidently hated fraudulent mediums as badly 
as the genuine mediums of Modern Spiritualism do. 
No modern medium was ever known to use his sacred 
gift to strike a man blind. Modern Spiritualism teaches 
an entirely different doctrine. 



336 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Verse 12 says : Paul's striking this Spiritualist im- 
postor blind converted a deputy. 

Signs and Wonders. 
Chap. XIV., Verse 3 : God "granted signs and won- 
ders to be done by their hands" (Paul's and Barnabas' 
hands). 

Would Make Gods of Paul and Barnabas. 

Verses 8 to 19: Paul heals a man born a cripple, 
and the people would worship them as gods, but they 
refused. 

Fifteenth chapter: They quarreled. 

Verses 6 to 12 : Peter settled the matter with them. 

Verse 32 : Judas and Silas are mediums. 

Apostles Quarrel. 

Verses 36 to 41 : Apostles quarrel and separate. 

Verse 39 : "And the contention was so sharp between 
them, that they departed asunder one from the other, 
and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus. 

Verse 40: "And Paul chose Silas, and departed, 
being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of 
God." 

Spirits Forbid Them Preaching in Asia— The Holy 
Ghost Is Called a Spirit. 

Acts XVI., Verse 6: They were forbidden of the 
Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia. 

Verse 7: The spirit "suffered them not" to go into 
Bithynia. 

They were led by the spirit as are modern mediums. 

Another Dark Seance — Paul Has a Vision in the 

Night. 

Was this not a dark seance ? 



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Verse 9: "And a vision appeared to Paul in the 
night; there stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed 
him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us." 

Verse 10 : "And after he had seen the vision, imme- 
diately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly 
gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach 
the gospel unto them." 

Such experiences are common in Spiritualism. 

In this the writer says we endeavored to go, as though 
he were one of them. Was Luke with the apostles on 
this occasion ? Why did not the spirit come in daytime ? 
This was a dark circle. Modern mediums often have 
visions and get spirit communications in the night the 
same as Paul did. 

Paul Drove a Good Spirit Out of a Good Medium. 

Verse 16: "And it came to pass, as we went to 
prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of 
divination met us which brought her masters much 
gain by soothsaying (soothsaying: foretelling or pre- 
dicting events — Webster). 

The prophets, apostles, seers, men of God, and Jesus 
himself, were men foretelling or predicting events. 

Verse 17: "The same followed Paul and us and 
cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most 
high God, which show us the way of salvation." 

Verse 18: "And this did she many days. But Paul, 
being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command 
thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. 
And he came out the same hour." 

She was doing the same work they were : teaching 
their doctrine and praising their work. Why should 
Paul drive out her control? Did her masters receive 
more "gain" than the apostles did ? 



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Paul and Silas Imprisoned. 

Verse 19: "And when her masters saw that the 
hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and 
Silas and drew them into the market place unto the 
rulers." 

Verse 20: "And brought them to the magistrates, 
saying, These men being Jews, do exceedingly trouble 
our city," 

Verse 21 : "And teach customs which are not lawful 
for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans." 

Romans Beat Paul and Silas With Many Stripes. 
Verse 22: "And the multitude rose up together 
against them, and the magistrates rent off their clothes 
and commanded to beat them." 

Dark Seance in Prison, Paul and Silas. 

Verse 23 : "And when they had laid many stripes 
upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the 
jailer to keep them safely :" 

Verse 24 : "Who having received such charge, thrust 
them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast 
in the stocks." 

Verse 25 : "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, 
and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard 
them," 

Verse 26: "And suddenly there was a great earth- 
quake, so that the foundations of the prison were 
shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, 
and every one's bands were loosed." 

Verse 27 : "And the keeper of the prison awaking 
out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he 
drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, 
supposing that the prisoners had been fled." 



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Verse 28 : "But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, 
Do thyself no harm : for we are all here." 

Verse 29: "Then he called for a light, and sprang 
in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and 
Silas." 

Good Results of This Dark Seance. 

Verse 30: "And brought them out, and said, Sirs, 
what must I do to be saved ?" 

Verse 32 : "And they spake unto him the word of 
the Lord, and to all that were in his house." 

Verse 33 : "And he (the Warden) took them (Paul 
and Silas) the same hour of the night (this was a 
quick conversion), and washed their stripes (the stripes 
they had made by whipping them) ; and was baptized, 
he and all his, straightway." 

Verses 34, 35 : The jailer took them home, fed them 
a midnight supper. "And when it was day the magis- 
trates sent word to let them go." 

This was a night's experience and a dark seance to be 
remembered, was it not ? 

Some Christians say that Spiritualists hold their 
dark seances because their deeds are evil, but Spiritual- 
ists do not so accuse Christians in this case. Spirit- 
ualism teaches us to do good to those that hate and 
despitefully use us. 

Another Dark Seance, Jesus Comes. 

Acts XVIII., Verse 9 : "Then spake the Lord to Paul 
in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and 
hold not thy peace :" 

Verse 10: "For I am with thee, and no man shall 
set on thee to hurt thee : for I have much people in 
this city." 



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Spirits today often warn mediums of danger. 

Holy Ghost Never Heard of by These Disciples. 

XIX., 2: "He (Paul) said unto them (certain dis- 
ciples), Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye be- 
lieved ? And they said unto him, We have not so much 
as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost." 

How strange ! 

Paul a Developing Medium. 

Verse 6 : "And when Paul had laid his hands upon 
them, the Holy Ghost (spirit control) came on them; 
and they spake with tongues, and prophesied." 

Paul Cures Obsession With Magnetized Cloth. 

Acts XIX., Verse 11: "And God wrought special 
miracles by the hands of Paul :" 

Verse 12 : "So that from his body were brought 
unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases 
departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of 
them." 

Paul Heals With Magnetized Articles. 

Verse 13 : "Then certain of the vagabond Jews, 
exorcists, took upon them to call over them which 
had evil spirits, the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, 
We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth." 

Verse 14: "And there were seven sons of one 
Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests which did so." 

Verse 15: "And the evil spirit answered and said, 
Jesus I know, and Paul I know ; but who are ye ?" 

Verse 16: "And the man in whom the evil spirit 
was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed 
against them, so that they fled out of that house naked 
and wounded." 



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This obsessed man seems to have been a good medium 
for this evil spirit. 

Verse 19 : "Many of them also which used curious 
arts brought their books together and burned them 
before all men : and they counted the price of them, 
and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. " 

What a mighty impulse these evil spirits gave to true 
Christianity. 

Verse 20: "So mightily grew the word of God and 
prevailed." 

Verse 26 : Paul says : "They be no gods which are 
made with hands." 

The remainder of this chapter tells of the "uproar" 
that the disciples created among the Ephesians, "And 
they cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians." 

Paul Raised the Dead (?). 

Acts XX. : Paul was like some modern mediums, 
long winded, and liked to be heard for his much 
speaking." 

Verse 7 says he "continued his speech until mid- 
night." 

Verse 8 : "And there were many lights in the upper 
chamber, where they were gathered together." 

Verse 9: "And there sat in a window a certain 
young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep 
sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down 
with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was 
taken up dead." 

Verse 10 : "And Paul went down, and fell on him, 
and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for 
his life is in him." 

That settles it ; the boy was not dead. 



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Paul Talks Until Morning. 

Verse 11 says Paul "talked a long while, even till 
break of day." 

Paul Earns His Own Living. 

Verse 34: "Yea, ye yourselves know, that these 
hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them 
that were with me." 

Spirit Tells Paul Not to Go to Jerusalem. 

Chap. XXL, Verse 4: "And finding disciples, we 
tarried there seven days : who said to Paul through the 
Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem. " 

Verse 5 : "And they all brought us on our way, with 
wives and children." 

How like our own missionary work. Numbers of the 
faithful accompanied us to boats, trolley cars, railroad 
depots, etc., when we departed from towns we visited 
while in the missionary field of Modern Spiritualism. 
Mrs. Sprague and myself spent thirteen years of very 
active work as missionaries of the National Spiritual- 
ists' Association of the United States of America, and 
our experiences were in many ways similar to Paul's 
and the other disciples and apostles of Jesus. Though 
we were never whipped nor imprisoned, we were some- 
times threatened by anonymous letters, and by vicious 
opposers. 

Evangelist Philip's Four Daughters Mediums. 
Verse 9: "And the same man (Philip) had four 
daughters, virgins, which did prophesy." 

Another Medium Came. 
Verse 10: "And as we tarried there many days, 
there came down from Judea a certain prophet, named 
Agabus." 



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A Peculiar Though Real Spirit Prophecy. 

Verse 1 1 : "And when he was come unto us, he took 
Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands, and feet, and 
said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost (the spirit influence). 
So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that own- 
eth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of 
the gentiles." 

Ancient mediums, like modern ones, did their work 
in peculiar ways. Why could not Agabus have told 
Paul that he would be bound hand and foot when he 
went to Jerusalem, just as well as to bind himself to 
show it. He told after binding himself that they would 
bind the owner of the girdle. Spiritualists can explain 
this, but no one else knows why? Christians are not 
able to explain many Bible passages that Spiritualists 
can. 

Paul Tells of His Conversion. 

Acts XXII., 1 to 22 : Paul tells to the Jews particu- 
lars of his conversion. 

Verses 23 to 30 : Paul was arrested, and they went 
about to kill him. They beat him (whipped him). They 
put him in bonds. 

Prophecy Fulfilled. 

Verse 30 recalls the prophecy, and shows the ful- 
fillment of the one Agabus mentioned in Acts XXL, 
10, 11, in which he told Paul he would be placed in 
bonds. If Agabus had done this in the state of Michi- 
gan in these days he would have been liable to arrest and 
imprisonment for foretelling the future, "fortune 
telling." The Christians are the authors of this law 
in Michigan. They are so afraid people will be de- 
ceived by fortune tellers that they are willing to violate 



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the Constitution of the State, and the sacred religious 
rights of the people as granted by the Constitution of 
the United States, because Spiritualism, not "fortune 
telling," is proving the errors of their old theology 
and demonstrating a future life for mankind. 

Jesus, a Spirit, Entrances Paul. 

Acts XXII. , 17: Paul says: "And it came to pass, 
that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while 
I prayed in the temple, I was in a trance ;" 

Verse 18: "And saw him (Jesus) saying unto me, 
"Make haste and get thee out of Jerusalem : for they 
will not receive thy testimony concerning me." 

Verses 19, 20, 21 : Jesus, a spirit, communicates with 
Paul. 

Jesus was Paul's spirit guide, and was caring for his 
safety in this case, as the spirit guides of modern me- 
diums do when permitted. 

Paul Saved from Death Again. 

Paul gets out of being whipped by claiming he is a 
"Roman free born." 

XXIII., Verse 6: Paul escapes death by claiming 
to be a Pharisee. They uphold him against the Sad- 
ducees. 

Sadducees Materialists; Pharisees Spiritualists. 

Verse 8: "For the Sadducees say that there is no 
resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit : but the Pharisees 
confess both." 

Spirit Communion Is of God. 
Verse 9: "And there arose a great cry; and the 
scribes (lawyers) that were of the Pharisees' part arose, 
and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but 



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if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not 
fight against God." 

Paul Shut in Castle to Save His Life. 

Verse 10 : "And when there arose a great dissension 
the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been 
pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to 
go down, and take him by force from among them, and 
bring him into the castle. " 

Another Dark Circle. 

Verse 1 1 : "And the night following the Lord stood 
by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul : for as thou 
hast testified of Me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear 
witness also at Rome. ,, 

Jews Sworn to Kill Paul. 

Verses 12 to 15: Certain Jews bound themselves 
under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they had 
killed Paul. 

Verses 16, 17 : Paul's sister's son heard about it 
and he went and told Paul. Paul sent the centurion 
(an officer who has command over a hundred soldiers) 
with the boy to the chief captain, and he told him 
secretly that they were going to kill Paul. 

Verse 23 : The chief captain took two hundred sol- 
diers, and seventy horsemen, and two hundred spear 
men in the night, and took Paul from prison and car- 
ried him to Felix the Governor, which probably saved 
his life. 

Chap. XXV., XXVI., tells of Paul's trial and two 
years in prison. 

Jesus, a Spirit, Speaks to Paul. 
XXVI., 14: Paul says he heard a voice speaking 



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to him in the Hebrew tongue, and he tells what that 
voice said. 

Verse 15 : Paul asked who was speaking to him, and 
the voice said, "I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." 

Paul, a Prisoner, Sails for Italy. 

Acts XXVII., Verses 1 to 9 : Tells of places visited 
along the coast. 

Paul Foretells the Future. 

Verse 9: Sailing was slow and dangerous, and 
"Paul admonished them." 

Verse 10: "And said unto them, I perceive that this 
voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only 
of the lading and ship, but also of our lives. " 

Let us remember Paul was a medium and these things 
were given him by his spirit guide, as will be shown in 
what follows. 

Verses 11 to 20 tell of the storms with which they 
met, and 

Verse 20 says : "And when neither sun nor stars in 
many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, 
all hope that we should be saved was then taken away." 

Verse 21 : Paul tells them they should have heark- 
ened unto him and not left "Crete, and to have gained 
this harm and loss." 

Spirits Show Paul the Ship Will Be Lost. 

Verse 22 : "And now I exhort you to be of good 
cheer : for there shall be no loss of any man's life 
among you, but of the ship." 

Another Dark Seance. 
Verse 23 : "For there stood by me this night the 
angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 347 

Spirit Guide Talks to Paul. 

Verse 24: "Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be 
brought before Caesar and, lo, God hath given thee all 
them that sail with thee." 

Verse 25: "Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for 
I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me." . 

Foretells Shipwreck — Prophecy Is Fulfilled. 

Verse 26 : "Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain 
island." 

Verses 27 to 44 give report of the shipwreck, which 
was a fulfillment of Paul's prophecy. 

A spirit revealed this to Paul in the night ; he gave 
it to his comrades, and it all came true. This is Spir- 
itualism of the Bible. 

Cast on an Island — Barbarous People. 

Acts XXVIII., Verses 2 to 6 : Paul is bitten by a 
viper. "The barbarians saw the venomous beast hang 
on his hand. They said among themselves, No doubt 
this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped 
the sea, yet vengeance sufifereth not to live." 

Verse 5 : Paul "shook off the beast into the fire, and 
felt no harm." 

Paul Called a God. 

Verse 6: Because Paul's hand did not become 
swollen and he did not drop dead, they "said he was a 
god." 

They frequently made gods of men in those days. 

Paul Heals the Heathen. 

Verses 7 to 11 : Paul healed the sick father of the 
barbarian chief, which brought others who were sick 
to him, whom he healed. 



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Verse 11: "And after three months we departed 
in a ship of Alexandria/' 

Verse 16 : They arrived at Rome. 

Verse 17 to 21 : Paul called the chief of the Jews 
together and told his story and pleaded his case; and 
they said they had received no letters out of Judea 
concerning him and knew no harm of him. 

Verse 22 : "But we desire to hear what thou think- 
est : for as concerning this sect, we know that every- 
where it is spoken against." 

Christianity was sixty years old at that time, and 
was far more unpopular than Spiritualism has been in 
the seventy-five years of its existence; and this is 
another proof that history is repeated in the coming 
of new religions into the world. Though the coming 
of Modern Spiritualism is but the repetition of the 
coming of Ancient Christianity, which was Ancient 
Spiritualism. It comes now, with added facts and phe- 
nomena with its years of growth and natural evolution. 
It brings the same spiritual phenomena to prove its 
source, and its eighteen hundred years of human ex- 
perience and scientific attainment added to its grand 
philosophy. 

Paul a Bible Spiritualist. 

Verse 23 says : "There came many to him into his 
lodging ; to whom he expounded and testified the king- 
dom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both 
out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets from 
morning till evening." 

There was no New Testament of God's Word at that 
time, so Paul preached from the Jewish Old Testament. 

Esaias Followed Paul's Lectures With Tests. 
Verse 25 says: "After that Paul had spoken one 



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word, Well spake the Holy Ghost (spirit control) by 
Esaias the prophet (the medium) unto our fathers." 

Verses 26, 27 and 28 record these spirit messages. 

It was customary for the apostles to follow their 
lectures with messages, or to let the other prophets 
(mediums) do it. 

Paul Continues Teaching Spiritualism. 

Verse 30 says : "And Paul dwelt two whole years in 
his own hired house and received all that came in unto 
him." 

Verse 31 : Preaching the kingdom of God and teach- 
ing those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, 
with all confidence, no man forbidding him. For two 
whole years taught his Master's religion of Spiritualism 
and very likely practiced his mediumship in one place 
unmolested. 

Paul a Developing Medium — Imparts Spiritual Gifts. 

Romans L, 11 : Paul in this Epistle to the Romans 
says : "For I long to see you, that I may impart unto 
you some spiritual gift (of mediumship), to the end 
ye may be established." 

Spiritual gifts of mediumship establish their pos- 
sessor in the knowledge of the future life for man- 
kind ; and Paul longed to impart unto others some spirit- 
itual gifts that they, too, might know and be happy in 
this knowledge. It is this desire that inspires the author 
to write this book. 

Mediums Are Called Sons of God in Scripture. 

Romans VIIL, 14, says : "For so many as are led 

by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God." 

Many of the mediums of the Bible supposed their 



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spirit guides were God, or spirits of the Lord sent from 
God on special errands. 

Paul Speaks Proudly of His Mediumship. 

XV., Verse 18: "For I will not dare to speak of 
any of these things which Christ hath not wrought by 
me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed." 

Verse 19: "Through mighty signs and wonders, by 
the power of the spirit of God (spirit phenomena) ; so 
that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, 
I have fully preached the gospel of Christ." 

The author of this book and many other modern 
mediums have had similar experiences. Traveling over 
vast portions of country, preaching Spiritualism and 
demonstrating its truths "Through mighty signs (tests) 
and wonders, by the power of the spirit." This is 
Spiritualism of the Bible. 

First Corinthians — Paul an Inspirational Speaker. 

1 Cor. II., 1 : "And I, brethren, when I came to 
you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, 
declaring unto you the testimony of God." 

Verse 2 : "For I determined not to know anything 
among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." 

Not Paul's Wisdom But Spirit Power Demonstrated 
That Converted Them. 

Verse 4 : "And my speech and my preaching was not 
with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstra- 
tion of the Spirit and of power" 

Through his mediumship was given the demonstra- 
tion of spirit power. 

This is Spiritualism as plainly and clearly as words 
can express it. 



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The rest of this chapter differs very little from the 
teachings of Modern Spiritualism. 

Paul's Spirit Control Opposes Divorce. 

VII., 10: "And unto the married I command, yet 
not I, but the Lord, (his spirit guide and control), Let 
not the wife depart from the husband ;" 

Verse 11: "But, and if she depart, let her remain 
unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and let 
not the husband put away his wife." 

The above is a spirit's message. 

Paul Himself, Not the Spirit, Speaks on Marriage. 

Verse 12 : "But to the rest speak I, not the Lord 
(not the spirit) : If any brother hath a wife that be- 
lieveth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let 
him not put her away." 

Verse 13 : "And the woman which hath an husband 
that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with 
her, let her not leave him." 

Verse 14 : "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified 
by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by 
the husband : else were the children unclean ; but now 
are they holy." 

Paul Favors Divorces. 

Verse 15: "But if the unbelieving depart, let him 
depart. A brother or sister is not under bondage in 
such cases : but God hath called us to peace." 

Verse 16 : "For what knowest thou, O wife, whether 
thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, 
O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?" 

Follow Own Impressions. 

Verse 17: "But as God hath distributed to every 
man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk 



352 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

(i. e., follow one's own good impressions). And so 
ordain I in all churches." 

Paul closes it by saying: "And I think also that I 
have the spirit of God." That is, the spirit of the Lord 
is giving this to him. 

Paul a Medium — Apostles Mediums. 
Chap. IX., Verse 1 : "Am I not an apostle? have I 
not seen Jesus Christ, our Lord ?" 

Eight Phases of Mediumship Mentioned in One 
Chapter. 

1 Cor. XII., 1 : "Now concerning spiritual gifts, 
brethren, I would not have you ignorant." 

"Spiritual gifts," according to Modern Spiritualism, 
are spiritual faculties of men, and these faculties con- 
stitute what is now called "spirit mediumship." 

Verse 4 says : "Now there are diversities of gifts 
(different phases of mediumship), but the same spirit." 

Verse 7 : "But the manifestation of the spirit is given 
to every man to profit withal." 

That is saying, that every man can have spirit mani- 
festations, and that they are profitable to all. Does the 
Bible teach Spiritualism ? Dear reader, please use your 
own good judgment in making your decision ; let your 
reason decide this important question after carefully 
analyzing the contents of the scriptures without 
prejudice. 

Phase No. 1. 

Verse 8 : "For to one is given by the spirit the word 
of wisdom." 

Phase No. 2. 

"To another the word of knowledge by the same 
spirit." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 353 

Phase No. 3. 

Verse 9: "To another the gifts of healing by the 
same spirit." 

Phase No. 4. 

Verse 10: "To another the working of miracles." 
(The production of physical phenomena.) 

Phase No. 5. 

"To another prophecy." 

Phase No. 6. 

"To another the discerning, of spirits" (clairvoyance). 

Phase No. 7. 

To another divers kinds of tongues. 

Phase No. 8. 

"To another the interpretation of tongues." 

Verse 11 : "But all these worketh that one and the 

selfsame spirit, dividing to every man severally as he 

will." 

Spirit mediums of today possess all these and many 

other phases of mediumship, and in the practice of them 

are blessing the world. 

No Christian Church of Today Properly Officered 
According to Paul. 

Verse 28: Paul says: "And God hath set some in 
the church, first, apostles (the preachers), secondarily, 
prophets (mental mediums), thirdly, teachers (those 
teachers of the children's Sabbath schools, Bible classes, 
etc.), after that miracles (mediums for physical phe- 
nomena), then gifts of healings (mediums who heal 
by spirit power like modern mediums, or the same as 
Jesus and the apostles healed), helps (good, all-around 



354 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

workers such as we now have in all churches), gov- 
ernments (business directors or trustees, such as all 
now have), diversities of tongues (mediums who speak 
in unknown tongues). " 

The churches of Modern Spiritualism are fully 
equipped according to this list of officers arranged by 
Paul and carried out by God, according to Paul, in this 
verse. 

Spiritualist Churches Fully Equipped. 

The First Spiritualist Temple of Detroit has four 
pastors (apostles), of which I am one. It has eight 
hundred members at this writing, among whom are a 
goodly number who are filling successfully the other 
seven offices mentioned by Paul. 

But where is there one Christian church in this land 
that is officered according to this supposed edict of God, 
given through the instrumentality or mediumship of 
Paul? 

Until Spiritualism is accepted by the Christian 
church, it never can be officered in accordance with these 
instructions of the holy book. 

Verse 29 : Paul continues, "Are all apostles ? are all 
prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of mira- 
cles ?" (physical phenomena). 

Verse 30: "Have all the gifts of healing? all speak 
with tongues? do all interpret ?" 

Verse 31 : "But covet earnestly the best gifts: and 
yet show I unto you a more excellent way." 

Spiritualists possess these "gifts" and practice them 
regularly. In this they are the true followers of these 
teachings of the scriptures. 

Chapter on Charity. 
1 Cor. XIII., Verse 1 : "Though I speak with the 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 355 

tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, 
I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. " 

Chapter on Speaking in Tongues. 

Chap. XIV., Spiritualists are the only people who 
understand clearly the meaning of "speaking in 
tongues. ,, They alone have had seventy-five years' 
experience with this phase of mediumship. The author 
of this work has had forty years' experience, his wife 
and himself being mediums who have many times been 
controlled to speak in languages of which they have 
no knowledge. 

The Christian church is not able to give an intelligent 
explanation of the source from which this foreign lan- 
guage comes, the purpose for which it is given, or what 
are the effects of this manifestation. It is numbered 
with other spiritual gifts of the scripture. (See 1 
Corinthians XII., Verse 10.) 

Even Paul, who says so much about this phase of 
spirit mediumship, gives no evidence that he was aware 
of the great value of it. 

It is one of the most far-reaching assistants in the 
work of one's mediumistic development. 

Modern Spiritualism has revealed and made plain 
much of the scriptures that was entirely misunderstood 
by the Israelites or the early Christians. Many Chris- 
tians oppose the doctrine or teachings of spirit return, 
and claim all messages from the invisible spheres come 
from God, or the devil, or the angels of God, or emis- 
saries of the devil, but never the spirits of good men or 
good women. 

To all such people I would say, Was it God, his 
angels, the devil, or evil spirits, who spoke the eighteen 
different languages or "tongues" at the Pentecostal 



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feast through the mediumship of the apostles? or was 
it spirits of men of the eighteen nations or tribes that 
spoke through them ? 

Acts II., 4, says : "And they were all filled with the 
Holy Ghost (spirit influence or control), and began 
to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them 
utterance. " 

The author has been controlled for an hour at a time, 
on different occasions, to speak languages of which he 
knew absolutely nothing; and with persons present 
carry on conversations in foreign tongues, therefore, 
he naturally feels that he is better qualified to give an 
opinion on this subject that one who has never 'had this 
experience. (See also seventh to twelfth verses of this 
second chapter of Acts.) 

Unknown Tongues. 

1 Cor. XIV., 1 : Paul says, "Follow after charity, 
and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may 
prophesy." 

Paul thought prophecy was the best spiritual gift of 
them all, as he explains in this chapter and elsewhere. 

Verse 2: "For he that speaketh in an unknown 
tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no 
man understandeth him ; howbeit in the spirit he speak- 
eth mysteries." 

It is evident that Paul did not know the great value 
of speaking in tongues as we Spiritualists of today 
understand it?* 

Verse 3 : "But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men 
to edification, and exhortation, and comfort." 

Verse 4: "He that speaketh in an unknown tongue 
edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the 
church." 



* For an explanation see "Spirit Mediumship, How Developed and 
Safely Practiced," page 56, by Rev. E. W. Sprague. 



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Paul Favors Speaking in Tongues. 

Verse 5 : "I would that ye all spake with tongues, 
but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that 
prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except 
he interpret, that the church may receive edification." 

Verse 6 : "Now, brethren, if I come unto you speak- 
ing with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I 
shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowl- 
edge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine ?" 

Verse 13: "Wherefore let him that speaketh in an 
unknown tongue pray that he may interpret." 

Verse 14 : "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my 
spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful." 

Paul Sings Under Spirit Control. 

Verse 15: "What is it then? I will pray with my 
spirit, and I will pray with my understanding also ; 
/ will sing with the spirit/' 

Evidently under control of a foreign spirit and in a 
foreign language which he does not understand, be- 
cause he follows with the statement : "And I will sing 
with my understanding also." 

When he sings with the spirit he sometimes does not 
understand; sometimes he does understand. This is 
plain: he sings under different controls just as modern 
mediums do. 

Paul Speaks in Tongues, More Than All. 
Verse 18: Paul says: "I thank God I speak with 
tongues more than ye all." 

Conscious Spirit Control Better Than Unconscious. 

Verse 19: "Yet in the church I would rather speak 

five words with my understanding, that by my voice 



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I might teach others also, then ten thousand words in 
an unknown tongue. " 

1 Cor. XIV., 21 : "In the law it is written, With men 
of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this 
people ; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith 
the Lord." 

Tongues Are for a Sign. 

Verse 22: "Wherefore tongues are for a sign (test 
or proof), not to them that believe, but to them that 
believe not : but prophesying serveth not for them that 
believe not, but for them which believe." 

If your wife, daughter, or other relative or friend 
speak in an unknown tongue, it is a "sign," test, or 
proof, to you, an unbeliever, that there is something 
in it. To one who knows that such things occur it is 
nothing new or surprising. Therefore, as Paul says, 
Tongues are for a sign to them that believe not, but 
not to them that believe. 

Unbelievers May Think Them Insane. 

Verse 23 : "If therefore the whole church come to- 
gether into one place, and all speak with tongues, and 
there come in those that are unlearned" (those not fa- 
miliar with speaking in tongues), or unbelievers, will 
they not say that ye are mad?" (insane). 

Verse 24: "But if all prophesy, and there come in 
one that believeth not or one unlearned, he is convinced 
of all, he is judged of all." 

That is, he is converted by their prophesying, but 
not by their speaking in tongues, Paul seems hardly 
logical in this, else it requires further explanation. Some 
might think one insane when speaking in tongues, while 
others would see in it a sign or proof of spirit's mani- 
festation. 



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Paul Says Prophets Make Converts by Giving Tests. 

Verse 25 : "And thus are the secrets of his heart 
made manifest, and so falling down on his face he will 
worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth." 

Like Men of Today They Had Their Peculiarities. 
Verse 26: "How is it then, brethren? When ye 
come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a 
doctrine, sing a certain song, or ride a hobby? hath a 
tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let 
all things be done unto edifying." 

Paul Gives Instructions How to Conduct a Seance. 

Verse 27 : "If any man speak in an unknown tongue, 
let it be by two or at the most by three, and that by 
course, and let one interpret." 

Verse 28: "But if there be no interpreter, let him 
keep silence in the church ; and let him speak to himself, 
and to God." 

Paul Wanted Orderly Seances. 

Verse 29 : "Let the prophets speak two or three, and 
let the other judge." 

Verse 30: "If any thing be revealed to another that 
sitteth by, let the first hold his peace." 

Verse 31 : "For ye may all prophesy one by one, 
that all may learn, and all be comforted." 

Verse 32 : "And the spirits of the prophets are sub- 
ject to the prophets." 

This is fine Spiritualism, and is taught and practiced 
in Spiritualist churches and seances everywhere. 

If the spirits of the prophets are subject to the 
prophets as Paul here states, then Spiritualism is true, 
and good Christians believing it should rejoice with 
the Spiritualists. 



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God Not the Author of Confusion. 
1 Cor. XIV., Verse 33 : "For God is not the author 
of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the 
saints." 

Paul wants the seances carried on with order and 
according to law. 

Paul Narrow Minded in Some Things. 

Paul, like other people, has his peculiar ideas, idio- 
syncrasies, etc. Of course he was a bachelor, and had 
no high regard for women, as is shown throughout his 
teachings. 

Women Must Not Speak in Church. 

Verse 34 : Paul says, "Let your women keep silence 
in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to 
speak ; but they are commanded to be under, obedience 
as also saith the law." 

Verse 35 : "And if they will learn anything, let them 
ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for 
women to speak in church." 

Mediums Must Believe Paul's Teachings. 

Verse 37 : "If any man think himself to be a prophet 
(a medium) or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the 
things that I write unto you are the commandments of 
the Lord." 

If so, then the above article on woman keeping silence 
in the churches is a commandment from the Lord. 
Spiritualists do not believe the Lord (the spirit) is 
opposed to women speaking in the churches, because 
there are more inspired women speakers than there are 
inspired men in Spiritualism. This was but a personal 
view of the bachelor Paul. 

Verse 38: "But if any man be ignorant, let him be 
ignorant." 



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Forbid Not to Speak in Tongues. 

Verse 39: "Wherefore, breathren covet to prophesy, 
and forbid them not to speak in tongues." 

Verse 40: "Let all things be done decently and in 
order." 

Paul Speaks of Jesus' Many Appearances. 

1 Cor. XV., Verse 3 : "For I delivered unto you 
first of all that which I also received, how that Christ 
died for our sins according to the scriptures ;" 

Verse 4 : "And that he was buried, and that he rose 
again the third day according to the scriptures :" 

Verse 5 : "And that he was seen of Cephas, then of 
the twelve." 

Verse 6: "After that, he was seen of above five 
hundred brethren at once ; of whom the greater part 
remain unto this present, but some have fallen asleep." 

Verse 7 : "After that He was seen of James ; then 
of all the apostles." 

Paul Sees the Spirit of Jesus. 

Verse 8: "And last of all he was seen of me also, 
as one born out of due time." 

Verse 9: "For I am least of the apostles, that am 
not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted 
the church of God." 

Do the "Dead Return?"— Paul Tells of His 
Mediumship. 
Verse 10: "But by the grace of God I am what I 
am : and his grace which zvas bestowed upon me was 
not in vain ; but I labored more abundantly than they 
all. Yet not I, but the grace of God (spirit influence), 
which was with me." 



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How well mediums know this fact ! 
Verse 11 : "Therefore whether it were I or they (the 
spirits), so we preach, and so ye believed." 

Jesus Says He Is a Man. 

John VIII. , 40: Jesus says: "But now ye seek to 
kill me, a man who hath told you the truth, which I have 
heard of God : this did not Abraham." 

This "man" Jesus returned often after his death, as 
is amply shown by the scripture. 

Many passages of scripture are herein mentioned 
which state that the so-called dead return, but if there 
were no scripture whatever teaching it, it would make 
no difference with the fact, for Modern Spiritualism 
furnishes the absolute scientific proof and demonstra- 
tion of its truth. 

Paul Preaches the Resurrection of the Dead. 

This entire chapter teaches the resurrection of the 
dead. It is a sermon by Paul on the subject, and con- 
tains much that is in perfect harmony with the teach- 
ings of present-day Spiritualism. ' 

1 Cor. XV., 16 : "For if the dead rise not, then is not 
Christ raised:" 

Verse 17 : "And if Christ be not raised, your faith 
is vain." 

Verse 18 : "Then they also which are fallen asleep in 
Christ are perished." 

Verse 42 : Paul, speaking of the resurrection, says : 

''So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown 
in corruption ; it is raised in incorruption." 

Verse 43 : "It is sown in dishonor ; it is raised in 
glory : it is sown in weakness ; it is raised in power." 

Verse 44 : "It is sown a natural body ; it is raised a 



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spiritual body. There is a natural body and there is a 
spiritual body." 

This last verse is one of the cardinal principles of the 
teachings of Modern Spiritualism, and most of the 
others are accepted as true by Spiritualists. 

Paul Teaches Immortality. 

Verse 49 : "And as we have borne the image of the 
earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." 

Verse 50 : "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and 
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; neither doth 
corruption inherit incorruption." 

Paul Contradicts Adventism. 
Verse 51 : "Behold, I show you a mystery ; we shall 
not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. " 

Resurrection of Dead Not Physical. 

Verse 52 : "In a moment, in the twinkling of an 
eye, at the last trump : For the trumpet shall sound, and 
the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be 
changed." 

Verse 53 : "For this corruptible must put on incor- 
ruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ,, 

Verse 54 : "So when this corruptible shall have put 
on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on 
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying 
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." 

O Death Where Is Thy Sting? 

Verse 55: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, 
where is thy victory ?" 

After preaching so much Spiritualism, and having 
seen and communicated so often with the spirit of 



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Jesus, Paul, like all other spirit mediums, can, with 
consistency rejoice in the knowledge of a future life, 
and undoubtedly uttered these words in heartfelt sin- 
cerity: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where 
is thy victory?" 

The medium is one who knows the dead are not in 
the graves, but are living in their spiritual bodies, and 
loving while seeking to bless those they have left be- 
hind. Oh, how beautiful and how blessed is this 
Spiritualism ! 

Second Corinthians. 

In 2 Cor. XL, 8:, Paul says: "I robbed other 
churches, taking wages of them to do you service. ,, This 
shows that Paul was paid for his services. 

Spirit Not Inspiring Paul to Boast. 

Verse 17: "That which I speak I speak it, not after 
the Lord (i. e., not under influence), but as it were 
foolishly in this confidence of boasting." 

That is : We must understand it is not the spirit of 
the Lord inspiring him to boast. Thus Paul explains 
the difference between his own control and that of the 
spirit controlling him. 

Paul Persecuted, Whipped and Imprisoned for 
Teaching and Demonstrating Spiritualism. 

Verse 23 : "Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak 
as a fool), I am more; in labors more abundant, in 
stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in 
deaths oft." 

Verse 24: "Of the Jews five times received I forty 
stripes save one." 

Verse 25 : "Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 365 

I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day 
have I been in the deep ;" 

Verse 26 : "In journeyings often, in perils of waters, 
in perils of robbers, in perils by mine ozvn countrymen, 
in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in 
the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false 
brethren ;" 

Verse 27 : "In weariness and painf ulness, in watch- 
ings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in 
cold and nakedness." 

Verse 28: "Besides those things that are without, 
that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the 
churches." 

This poor man was terribly persecuted for practicing 
his mediumship and teaching the "resurrection of the 
dead" (Spiritualism). (See this entire chapter for 
more of this.) 

Visions and Revelations of the Lord. 

2 Cor. XII., Verse 1 : "It is expedient for me doubt- 
less to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of 
the Lord." 

A Man Caught Up to the Third Heaven. 

Verse 2: "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen 
years ago (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or 
whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth), 
such an one caught up to the third heaven" (third 
sphere, Spiritualists call it). 

Verse 3 : "And I knew such a man (whether in the 
body, or out of the body, I cannot tell; God knoweth). 

Verse 4 : "How that he was caught up into paradise, 
and heard inspeakable words, which it is not lawful 
for a man to utter." 

Modern mediums have similar experiences. 



366 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Verse 5 : "Of such an one will I glory : yet of my- 
self I will not glory, but in mine infirmities." 

Paul Asks For and Gets a Message From His Spirit 

Guide. 

2 Cor. XII. , 8 : "For this thing I besought the Lord 
thrice, that it might depart from me." 

Verse 9 : "And he said unto me, 'My grace is suffi- 
cient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weak- 
ness/ Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in 
my infirmities that the power of Christ (of the spirit) 
may rest upon me." 

Signs of an Apostle (Mediumship) Paul Practiced. 

Verse 12: "Truly the signs of an apostle were 
wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and won- 
ders, and mighty deeds" (i. e., spirit phenomena). 

Proof of Paul's Mediumship Wanted. 

XIII., 3: Paul says: "Since ye seek a proof of 
Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not 
weak, but is mighty in you." (See Verses 5 and 6, in 
which Paul retaliates.) 

Verse 13 : Paul says : "The communion of the Holy 
Ghost (spirit communion) be with you." 

This scripture shows that Paul is a medium, without 
doubt. 

Book of Galatians — Cursed for Preaching Other 

Gospels. 

Galatians I., 8: "But though we, or an angel from 
heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that 
which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed." 



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Angels from heaven teach a different doctrine from 
that today. 

Verse 9 repeats the sentiment recorded in the eighth 
verse. 
Gospel of Spirit of Jesus Revealed Through Paul. 

Verse 11: "But I certify you, brethren, that the 
gospel which was preached of me is not after man." 

Verse 12 : "For I neither received it of man, neither 
was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. ,, 

That is the way in which the author of this book 
acquired a knowledge of the Gospel of Spiritualism of 
this day. It was given him by the spirits, in its phe- 
nomena, science, philosophy and religion, and this 
scripture is thoroughly understood and appreciated by 
him. 

Paul Follows Spirit Direction. 

Galatians II., 1, 2: Paul went up to Jerusalem, 
taking Peter. He says : "I went up by revelation (that 
is, by spirit direction), and communicated unto them 
that gospel which I preach unto the Gentiles. " 

The Book of First Thessalonians — Paul's Prophecy 

Fails. 

1 Thessalonians, Chapter IV., Verse 15 : Paul says: 
"For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord 
(i. e., by spirit communication), that we which are alive 
and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not pre- 
vent them which are asleep/' 

Some of them are to be alive when Jesus comes. 
He was to come before that generation passed away. 
Paul, in this, proves himself not an infallible prophet. 

Physical Resurrection. 
Verse 16: "For the Lord himself shall descend 



368 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch- 
angel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in 
Christ shall rise first." 

Verse 17 : "Then we which are alive and remain shall 
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet 
the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be with the 
Lord." 

Verse 18: "Wherefore comfort one another with 
these words." 

They all died centuries ago, and Jesus has not come 
for them yet. 

Best Thing in Thessalonians ; Spiritualists 
Endorse It. 

1 Thess., Chap. V., Verse 19: "Quench not the 
spirit." 

Verse 20 : "Despise not prophesyings." 

Verse 21 : "Prove all things ; hold fast that which is 
good." 

Spiritualists do not quench the spirit, but welcome 
their presence and aid. 

They do not despise prophesyings but encourage 
them because they believe in them, and love them. And 
they of all religious people are the only ones to prove 
all things which their religion teaches ; and surely they 
never let go of a good thing because they know "that 
which is good," and so "hold fast" to it. These are the 
true teachings of Spiritualism, and the very best things 
in the book of 1st Thessalonians. 

Second Thessalonians. 

2 Thess. I., 7 : Jesus accompanied by "mighty angels." 
Verse 8: Paul's God, a God of vengeance. 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 369 

Verse 9 : "Punishing with everlasting destruction." 

II., 4: Paul says Jesus is God. 

Verse 8 : The Lord shall consume the wicked. 

Signs and Lying Wonders. 
Verse 9: Paul thinks Satan has all power to work 
signs and lying wonders. 

God Sends Strong Delusions. 
Verse 11 : "And for this cause God shall send them 
strong delusions that they should believe a lie." 

Damned for Unbelief. 

Verse 12 : "That they all might be damned who 
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unright- 
eousness. " These prophets were a queer lot. 

Could a good God send strong delusions to deceive 
a child of His own creation, that the child might be 
damned ? 

Would it not be more Godlike to send truths to guide 
His children in the right way, as the God of Modern 
Spiritualism is doing today through His heavenly evan- 
gels, our own dear spirit friends ? 

First Timothy — Used to Oppose .Spiritualism 
IV., 1 : "Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in 
the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving 
heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils ;" 

Verse 2 : "Speaking lies in hypocrisy ; having their 
conscience seared with a hot iron ;" 

Paul No Vegetarian. 

Verse 3 : "Forbidding to marry, and commanding to 
abstain from meats, which God hath created to be re- 
ceived with thanksgiving." 



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Paul Opposes Physical Culture. 
Verse 8: "For bodily exercise profiteth little: but 
godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise 
of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." 

Mediumship Must Not Be Neglected. 

Verse 14 : Paul tells Timothy not to neglect his gift 
of mediumship. 

He says : "Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which 
was given thee by prophecy," etc. 

Second Timothy — Jesus Abolished Death, Paul 

Says. 

2 Timothy I., 10 : "But is now made manifest by the 
appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abol- 
ished death, and hath brought life and immortality to 
light through the gospel" 

How true this is ! He, like all other mediums, brought 
the knowledge of life after death to light, by his teach- 
ings, and by demonstrating through his mediumship, 
the gospel of Spiritualism. Spiritualism certainly does 
abolish death, and Paul learned this truth when the 
spirit of the crucified Jesus came and communicated 
with him when on his way to Damascus. 

Verse 11 : "Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, 
and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles." 

Paul was called to this service by the spirit world. 
Just as the author of this work was called to it. 

Jesus Raised From the Dead, Says Paul. 

2 Timothy II., 8 : "Remember that Jesus Christ of 
the seed of David was raised from the dead according 
to the gospel." 



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That is to say : he appeared to Paul and others after 
his death. 

All Scripture Inspiration from God, Says Paul. 

2 Tim. III., 16 : "All scripture is given by inspiration 
of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, or 
correction, for instruction in righteousness. " 

Notwithstanding this statement of Paul, some of the 
Old Testament would seem to have been inspired by 
God's adversary instead. 

IV., 7 : Paul says : "I have fought a good fight, I 
have finished my course, I have kept the faith." 

The author of this work, now in his seventy-fifth year 
and after forty-one years in the active, every-day serv- 
ice of the same great cause of religious truth, teaching 
and demonstrating the blessed truths of Spiritualism 
and the "Resurrection of the Dead," as did he, can say 
with Paul, I have fought a good fight, I have nearly 
finished my course, I have kept the faith, and I am 
ready when called. 

Paul's Spirit Guide Strengthens Him. 

Verse 17: "Notwithstanding the Lord stood with 
me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching 
might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might 
hear ; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion." 

Modern mediums' spirit guides strengthen them this 
way, God bless them. 

Book of Titus — God Renews Spirit Power. 

Titus III., 5, 6 : God renewed the Holy Ghost (spirit 
power) which he shed on them abundantly through 
Jesus Christ (the medium). 

Book of Hebrews — Angels are Spirits. 
Chap. I., 7 : "And of the angels he saith, Who maketh 
his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire." 



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These were guardian angels — spirit guides. 

Ministering Spirits. 

Verse 14 : "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent 
forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of sal- 
vation ?" 

Angels or Spirits Speak. 

Heb. II., 2 : "For if the word spoken by angels was 
steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience 
received a just recompense of reward." 

Verse 3 : "How shall we escape, if we neglect so 
great salvation," etc.? 

Gifts of Spirit Power. 

Chap. II. , Verse 4 : "God also bearing them witness 
both with signs and wonders, and divers miracles 
(physical phenomena), and gifts of the Holy Ghost 
(spirit power), according to his own will." 

This is Spiritualism. 

Verse 5 : "For unto the angels hath he not put in 
subjection the world to come, whereof we speak." 

Mediums Partakers of the Heavenly Calling. 

Chap. III., 1 : Paul says : "Wherefore, holy breth- 
ren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the 
Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ 
Jesus." 

Verse 7 says : "Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith 
(spirit control saith), Today if ye will hear his voice." 

That is, ye shall hear the. voice of the spirit speaking 
today if you will. 

Once a Convert to Spiritualism Always One. 

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were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly 
gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost (spirit 
communion), to fall away." (See Verses 5, 6.) 
There are no backsliders among true Spiritualists. 

Compassed About with Cloud of Witnesses. 

XII., Verse 1 : "Wherefore seeing we also are com- 
passed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let 
us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so 
easily beset us, and let us run w r ith patience the race 
that is set before us." 

These are the teachings of Modern Spiritualism. 
We are compassed about with a multitude of witnesses. 

Big Company of Angels. 

Verse 22 : "But ye are come ... to an innumerable 
company of angels." 

Verse 23 : "And to the spirits of just men made 
perfect." 

Entertain Angels Unawares. 

XIII., 2 : "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers : 
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." 

Strangers are sometimes mediums and in entertain- 
ing such strangers their angel guides might be with 
them, and one would possibly, if conditions were right, 
get from them a spirit message. Thus one may enter- 
tain angels unawares. This is splendid Spiritualism. 

First Epistle of Peter. 

Chapter I., Verse 1 : "Peter an apostle of Jesus 
Christ." 

Verse 25 : "But the word of the Lord (spirit com- 
munion) endureth forever. And this is the word which 
by the gospel is preached unto you." 



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Peter, being a medium, appreciated spirit communion, 
and preached it to them. 

Spirits in Prison. 

III., 19 : Jesus preached to the spirits in prison. 

What good could his preaching do them, if there were 
no progression after death, as is taught by orthodox 
Christianity. 

Gospel Preached to the Dead. 

Chapter IV., Verse 6 : "For this cause was the gos- 
pel preached also to them that are dead, that they might 
be judged according to men in the flesh, but live accord- 
ing to God in the spirit." 

This favors Spiritualism, as it teaches progression 
after death. 

Second Epistle of Peter — Add Knowledge to Your 

Faith. 

Chapter I., Verse 5, says : "Add to your faith virtue ; 
and to virtue knowledge." 

There are but two ways to add knowledge to one's 
faith in the life to come; one way is to investigate 
Modern Spiritualism, and the other is to die, and learn 
its truth from that side of life. 

Prophecy Not of Private Interpretation. 

Verse 20 : "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of 
the scripture is of any private interpretation." 

Is this not narrowness personified ? 

Verse 21 : "For the prophecy came not in old time by 
the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they 
were moved by the Holy Ghost" (spirit power). 



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False Prophets. 
Chapter II., Verse 1 : "But there were false prophets 
also among the people, even as there shall be false 
teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damna- 
ble heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, 
and bring upon themselves swift destruction." 

First Epistle of John — Try the Spirits. 

Chap. IV., 1 : "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but 
try the spirits whether they are of God : because many 
false prophets are gone out into the world." 

If every opposer of Spiritualism would follow the 
above advice given by John, and do it honestly, prayer- 
fully, and thoroughly, with a desire to find the truth, 
and willingly and gladly accepting the truth when dis- 
covered, there would be no more opposers of Spiritual- 
ism, but all such would find its blessed truth, and they 
would become its advocates. 

The Book of Revelation — Jesus, a Spirit, Controls 

John. 

Rev. I., 9: John was in the Isle of Patmos and 
received a spirit message. 

Verse 10: "I was in the spirit (under spirit control) 
on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, 
as of a trumpet." 

A Spirit Talks to John. 

Verse 11 : Jesus, a spirit, talks to John, giving him 
instructions what "to write in a book" and send to the 
seven churches of Asia. 

A Voice Spake and John Tries to See It. 

Verse 12: John says: "And I turned to see the 
voice that spake with me." 



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Did he expect to see a voice ? 

John Sees a Spirit; Describes Him. 

Verse 13 : "He saw one, like unto the son of man." 

Then follows a minute and peculiar description of 
this son of man, his clothes, his voice, his countenance, 
etc. 

Verse 17. John says : "And when I saw him I fell 
at his feet as dead, and he laid his right hand upon me, 
saying unto me, Fear not ; I am the first and the last." 

This is the spirit of Jesus who is communicating. 

Jesus Dead, Says He Is Now Alive. 

Verse 18 : Jesus, a spirit, says : "I am he that liveth, 
and was dead ; and, behold, I am alive forever more, 
amen ; and have the keys of hell and of death." 

These keys consist of the phenomena and the philoso- 
phy of Spiritualism, for they do unlock the mysteries 
of death and the hereafter. 

Verses 19, 20, 21 : Jesus, the spirit, who showed 
John the vision, explains it. 

A Long Spirit Message. 

Chapters II. and III. : Jesus gave John a long spirit 
message for the seven churches of Asia ; and some parts 
of it seem too weak and commonplace to come from 
such an exalted spirit as Jesus of Nazareth ; and much 
more so to come from Almighty God. 

The spirit Jesus closes this strange and remarkable 
communication to John the Revelator as follows : 

Verse 22 : "He that hath an ear let him hear what 
the spirit saith unto the churches." 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 377 

A Trumpet Seance. 

Rev. IV., 1 : "After this I looked and, behold, a door 
was opened in heaven (John became clairvoyant) : and 
the first voice which I heard (this was clairaudience, or 
an independent spirit voice) was as it were of a trum- 
pet talking with me." 

If it was a trumpet, it was a spirit talking through 
the trumpet. Spirits do communicate through trumpets 
even unto this day. 

John Under Spirit Control. 

Verse 2 : "And immediately I was in the spirit 
(under spirit control) : and, behold, a throne was set 
in heaven, and one sat on the throne." 

The rest of this chapter reads like one relating a bad 
dream. What it reveals is not made known. Nothing 
in Spiritualism like it. The same may be said of the 
fifth and sixth chapters. 

A Vision of John's. 

Chap. VIII. : John has a strange and incomparable 
vision. 

Heaven Was Silent for Half an Hour. 

Verse 1 : "And when he had opened the seventh 
seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half 
an hour." 

Verse 2 : John saw seven angels with seven trumpets. 

Angels Talk Through Trumpets. 

Verse 6 : "And the seven angels which had the seven 
trumpets prepared themselves to sound." 

The remainder of this chapter and of Chapter IX. 
are devoted to an explanation of these very strange 



378 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

spirit communications given through trumpets. We 
know of no such trumpet work as this in Spiritualism. 

Chap. X., 1 : "And I saw another mighty angel come 
down from heaven," etc. 

This and the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth chap- 
ters are filled with strange, weird and incomprehensible 
statements that make them almost valueless. 

Beast Does Miracles. 

XIII., 13 : "And he (the beast) doeth great wonders, 
so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the 
earth in the sight of men." 

This was a wonderful beast John saw ; he had seven 
heads, ten horns, etc. (See first verse, then the whole 
chapter.) 

This is not Spiritualism. Was John beside himself ? 

Chap. XIV., 13 : "And I heard a voice from heaven 
saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die 
in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the spirit, 
that they may rest from their labors ; and their works 
do follow them." 

This chapter tells of several angels that John saw. 

Chap. XV., 1 : "And I saw another sign in heaven, 
great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven 
last plagues ; for in them is filled up the wrath of God." 

Verse 6: John sees seven angels come out of the 
temple having seven plagues, etc. 

Verse 7: "And one of the four beasts gave unto 
the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of 
God, who liveth forever." 

We have never heard anything like these statements 
from any modern mediums, and must admit this is not 
Spiritualism. 



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John's Vision of 144,000 Virgin Men. 

Rev. XIV., 2 : "And I heard a voice from heaven," 
etc. 

Verse 3 : John tells of a new song that no man but 
these one hundred and forty-four thousand which were 
redeemed from the earth could learn. 

Verse 4: "These (men) are they which were not 
defiled with women ; for they are virgins," etc. 

Is this not paying a poor compliment to women? 
Spiritualists of today never have such peculiar, weird 
and unreasonable visions as some that John the Revela- 
tor is said to have received. 

Angel with Gospel to Be Preached to Men. 

Verse 6 : "And I saw another angel fly in the midst 
of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto 
them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and 
kindred, and tongue, and people." 

This vision is being beautifully carried out today the 
world over. The angels of heaven are bringing the 
Everlasting Gospel of Spiritualism to every nation of 
earth, and all the world is being blessed in a thousand 
ways thereby. 

Verse 13 : "And I heard a voice from heaven." 

Verses 14 to 19: John saw three angels, and heard 
one "cry with a loud cry." 

Verse 20 says : "And blood came out of the wine- 
press, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a 
thousand and six hundred furlongs." 

A flood of blood unto the horse bridles, four or five 
feet deep, by the space of a thousand and six hundred 
furlongs. That is : two hundred miles. 

What caused so much blood to flow from the wine- 
press? From whence came it into the wine-press? 



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What came it there to do? What purpose was there 
in flooding the country with blood? Nobody knows, 
and this is from the Book of Revelation. 

Wrath of God in Bottles. 

Chapter XV., Verse 1 : John has another vision of 
angels and plagues. 

Verse 7 : "And one of the four beasts gave unto the 
seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of 
God." 

A supposed prescription for a sin-sick world. Beasts 
of this sort do not give modern mediums bottled "wrath 
of God." But there may be bootleggers dealing in 
bottled wrath of Satan, or the devil, in certain society 
among men outside of Spiritualism and Spiritualists, 
even in these days. 

Chapter XVI. : Tells of the different angels appear- 
ing and pouring out their vials of wrath upon the seat 
of the beast ; upon the great river Euphrates ; upon the 
earth; upon the sea; upon the sun; into the air. All 
these brought great calamities, this scripture says. 

Verse 13 : John saw three spirits like frogs come 
out of the mouth of the dragon. 

Verse 14 : "For they are the spirits of devils working 
miracles," etc. 

Oh, what a strange and peculiar medium was St. John 
the Revelator! 

Verse 21 : "And there fell upon men a great hail 
out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent." 
(A talent is 57 pounds. See Webster.) 

Such mediumship as this is not present in the Spirit- 
ualism of today. 

Chap. XVII., 1 : One of the seven angels so often 
mentioned with vials of wrath talked with John. 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 381 

This chapter deals with things of little interest to the 
average mortal. It attempts to explain the meaning 
of John's vision of the woman riding a beast with seven 
heads and ten horns, etc. 

Chap. XVIII. , 1 : John saw another angel. 

Verse 2 : The angel cried with a strong voice : Baby- 
lon the great is fallen. 

Verse 4 : John says : "And I heard another voice 
from heaven." 

Prophecy and Remarkable Spirit Phenomena. 

Verse 21 : "And a mighty angel took up a stone like 
a great mill stone and cast it into the sea, saying : Thus 
with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown 
down and shall be found no more at all." 

Some doubt the possibility of a spirit moving a small 
table. 

Chap. XIX., 10 : "And I fell at his feet to worship 
him (the spirit), and he said unto me, See thou do it 
not : I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren that 
have the testimony of Jesus : Worship God : for the 
testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." 

Chap. XX., 1 : "And I saw an angel come down 
from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a 
great chain in his hand." 

Verse 2 : "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old 
serpent, which is the devil and Satan, and bound him 
a thousand years." 

Verse 3 : "And cast him into the bottomless pit, and 
shut him up and set a seal upon him, that he should 
deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years 
should be fulfilled : and after that he must be loosed 
a little season." 



382 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Heaven Described by an Angel. 

Rev. XXL, 10 : "And he carried me away in spirit 
(under spirit control) to a great and high mountain, 
and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, 
descending out of heaven from God." 

Verse 11 : "Having the glory of God: and her light 
was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper 
stone, clear as crystal." 

Verse 12 : "And had a wall great and high, and had 
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names 
written thereon, which are the names of the twelve 
tribes of the children of Israel." 

Verse 13 : "On the east three gates ; on the north 
three gates ; on the south three gates ; and on the west 
three gates." 

Verse 14: "And the wall of the city had twelve 
foundations and in them the names of the twelve apos- 
tles of the Lamb." 

XXL, IS : "And he (the angel or spirit) that talked 
with me had a golden reed to measure the city, and the 
gates thereof, and the wall thereof." 

Heaven's Dimensions and Form Given. 
16 : "And the city lieth four square, and the length is 
as large as the breadth ; and he measured the city with 
the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and 
breadth and height of it are equal." 

Heaven Is Fifteen Hundred Miles Square. 

A furlong is one-eighth of a mile (40 rods), conse- 
quently heaven is fifteen hundred miles square, accord- 
ing to this angel's measurements and the claims of St. 
John the Divine. 

Verse 17: "And he measured the wall thereof, an 



SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 383 

hundred and forty and four cubits (264 feet), accord- 
ing to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. " 

Was this not a wonderful spirit manifestation? 

Verse 18 : "And the building of the wall of it was of 
jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear 
glass." 

Does anyone believe heaven is pure gold ? Spiritual- 
ism teaches that heaven is a condition, and not neces- 
sarily a particular location. Two people may be in 
the same place and one in hell and the other in heaven ; 
one in a state of happiness, the other in a state of 
unhappiness and misery. Does it not look as though 
some of the Bible mediums drew largely upon their 
imagination ? 

Verse 19 says the city was "garnished with all man- 
ner of precious stones." 

Verses 19, 20, names those precious stones. 

Verse 21: "Every several gate was of one pearl: 
and the street of the city was pure gold." 

Verse 23 : No sun needed. "The glory of God did 
lighten it." 

Verse 25 : "There shall be no night there." 

Spirit of Old Prophet Returns and Communicates. 

Chap. XXIL, Verse 8: "And I, John, saw these 
things and heard them, and when I had heard and seen, 
I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel 
which showed me these things." 

Verse 9 : "Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: 
for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the 
prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this 
book: worship God." 

In this message the spirit says that he is one of the 



384 SPIRITUALISM OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

dead prophets. If he tells the truth, the dead do return 
and communicate with the living. 

Kind reader : In this work we have given the plain 
facts regarding the Spiritualism of the Bible. It makes 
no difference whether one is a Christian, an infidel, o£ 
a Spiritualist; here are the facts as recorded in the 
Bible; they speak for themselves. 

In some parts of scripture we learn of witchcraft; 
some parts of it teaches materialism ; that is, that death 
is the end of man's existence, and not all of its teach- 
ings are practical for this day. The most important 
and helpful part of the scriptures is the Spiritualism 
they teach, all of which is recorded in this work for 
your perusal, or the student's study, when he chooses 
to seek a good and true understanding of the scriptures 
and their teachings. 

The author has spent years of diligent labor in the 
study of the scriptures, and in this is giving the readers 
the benefit of his honest, prayerful researches. 

Conclusion. 

The fundamental principles of Christianity — the 
teachings of a future life awaiting mankind beyond the 
tomb, and the supposed evidence thereof, depends en- 
tirely upon the accuracy of the recorded work of the 
prophets, seers or spirit mediums of the Bible. As it 
is, true Christianity rejects all modern revelation. 

May this work prove of assistance to Bible believers 
and unbelievers, and in freeing men from some of their 
erroneous ideas regarding religion and the Christian 
Bible. And may it shed forth its much clearer light 
for the benefit of those who wish to know if the Bible 
teaches Spiritualism. May its readers be blessed as 
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INDEX 

Page 



385 



Among Gods but One Jeho- 
vah 166 

An Angel Acts in War 155 

Apostles Arrested 319 

Angel Claims He Is God. . . 28 
Ananias and Sapphira 

Killed for Lying 316, 317 

Angel Released Them from 

Prison 318 

Angel Baked Cake for Eli- 
jah 129 

Apostles Beaten 319 

Angels Came to Lot 23 

Abraham Doubts Message 

from God 20 

All Filled with the Holy 

Ghost 322 

Another Great Seance and 

Meeting 329 

Add Knowledge to Faith.. 374 
Angels Minister to Jesus.. 

234, 260, 283 
Army Officers Atone for 

Terrible Crimes 61 

Apports of Quail 55 

Ax Swims 140 

Apostles to Occupy Twelve 

Thrones of Israel 253 

Angels Talk Through 

Trumpets 37? 

Angels with Gospel to Be 
Preached to Men 379 



Balaam's Ass Clairvoyant 
and Talks 59, 60, 61, 

Balaam's Ass and Eve's 
Serpent Talking Mediums 

Blasphemy Against Holy 
Ghost Not Forgiven 242 

Bible Contradictions 47 

Be Content with Your 
Wages 

Big Company of Angels... 

Black Magic, Was This? 
30, 32, 

Birth of Jesus 

Best Thing in Thessalo- 
nians Spiritualists En- 
dorse 

Believers to Do Work of 
Jesus 

Bitter Water of Jealousy. . 



62 
62 



272 
373 

34 

270 



367 

296 
53 



Compassed About with a 
Cloud of Witnesses 373 

Cursed for Not Entertain- 
ing His Disciples 262 

Clairvoyance 79, 140, 

148, 162, 178, 198, 212, 243, 
260, 286, 287, 300, 328, 376 

Clairaudience 172, 174, 

212, 243, 324, 328 

Cursed for Preaching Other 
Gospels .., 366 



Page 
Christians' God Puts Forth 

a Riddle 195 

Cast Lots 50, 80, 87, 

105, 149, 21S, 307 
Casting Lots, Christian Au- 
thority for It 80 

Commercial Mediiimship. . . 

64, 317 
Communism Practiced. 311, 312 
Coming of Spiritualism 

Foretold 217, 309 

Chariot of Fire 249 

Contradictory Statements 

of Spirits -18, 322 

Conscious Spirit Control 
Better than Unconscious. 357 



332 



275 
160 



Dr. Rand Released from 
Prison 

Dead Raised by Elijah, 
Page 127; Elisha, 138; 
Paul, 341; Peter, 327, 

Dead Snail' Not Be Raised. 
Dark Seances 26, 27, 47, 

57, 60, 94, 97, 122, 150, 151, 

164, 204, 234, 245, 250, 256, 

336, 338, 345, 346 
Dark Seance, Aaron's Rod 

Blossoms 57 

Dark Seance in Prison, 

Paul and Silas 338 

Dark Seance, Peter Re- 
leased from Prison 331 

Dark Trumpet Seances. .36, 253 
Death to Approach Seance 

Room 53, 58 

Do the Dead Return? 

275, 300, 361 

Dreams Trouble King 202 

Disciples Wait Spirit 

Power 285 

Divination 27, 29, 113 

Disciples Afraid of a Spirit. 245 
David and Uriah's Wife. . . 118 
Devils Cast Out of Men 

Into Swine 237. 5>™ 

Devil Cause of Insanity 251 

Divorce Court Greatest of 

Bible 156 

Disciples Did Not Know 

Jesus Was God 274 

Disciples Doubted When 

They Saw Him.. 259, 265, 284 

David Feigns Insanity Ill 

Death for Not Accepting 

Jehovah 153 

Disciples Forbid Casting 

Out Devils 276 

Damned for Unbelief 369 

Disciples Hold Seances. 306, 307 
Daniel Interprets King's 

Dream 204, 205, 208 

Daniel in Lions' Den 211 

Dead Man Returns After 

900 Years 223 



For convenience, the second words under each letter division of 
this Index are placed in alphabetical order. 



386 



INDEX 



Page 
Dedication of Solomon's 

Temple 150 

Definitions of Bible Terms. 

10, 12, 15, 16, 229, 329 

E 

Entertain Angels Un- 
awares 373 

Elijah a Fire Medium, De- 
feats Baal's Prophets 128 

Elisha Begins Doing Mira- 
cles 134, 135 

Exodus Continues Record 
of Spirit Communion 48 

Elijah Controls Weather. . . 126 

Elijah Consumes Fifty with 
Fire from Heaven 131, 132 

Elijah's Chariot of Fire. 132, 134 

Early Christians Believe in 
Spirit Raps 334 

Elisha's Corpse Raises 

Dead 142 

Ephod Described Ill, 112 

Eat Everything 18 

Evangelist's Four Daugh- 
ters Mediums 342 

Esaias Followed Paul's 

Lectures with Tests 348 

Eat It Not but Sell It 71 

Expected Jesus to Rule Is- 
rael 304 

Epilepsy or the Devil 276 

Eight Phases of Medium- 
ship 352 

Evil Spirits Jehovah Sends. 

88, 165 

Evil Spirits from the Lord . 

108, 109, 111 

Evil Spirits Driven Out by 
Music 108 

Evil Spirits Cannot Return. 280 

Elias to Be Unborn Boy's 
Spirit Guide 268 

Elisha's Two She-Bears .. 135 



Fire and Brimstone from 

Heaven 23 

Flesh and Bones Material- 
ize 285 

Fraudulent and Incompe- 
tent Mediums 192, 335 

Five Dreams of Moses — 
Does Christianity Rest on 

Them? 231, 232 

Fasts Forty Days 129 

Fire Mediums and Medium- 
ship 49, 57, 86, 90, 

128, 131, 132, 134, 149, 151, 

171, 206, 249 
Fire Mediumship of D. D. 

Holmes 207 

False Prophets 193, 235 

Faith Removes Mountains. 251 
Familiar Spirit Condemns 

Others 173 

Forgives Sin 238 

Fiery Serpents Sent to Kill 
People 59 



Page 

Fortune Telling or Fore- 
telling the Future 

102, 125, 200 
Fig Tree Miracle 253 

G 

Gods Are Spirit Guides 165 

Give Angels Charge Over 

Thee 166 

Golden Calf Worshiped 44 

Gold Cure First on Record. 45 
God Does Not Lie nor Re- 
pent 62, 107 

God Dwells in Thick Dark- 
ness 122 

God Hardens Pharaoh's 

Heart 31 

Gods, Many, Taught. 18, 36, 166 
God of Jesus a Loving 

Father 227 

Gifts of Spirit Power 372 

Genealogy of Jesus 273 

Gospel of Jesus Not Free. . 313 
Gospel of Jesus Revealed to 

Paul 367 

Gospel Preached to the 

Dead 374 

God Repents 83, 107, 18? 

God Renews Spirit Power. 374 
God Sends Strong Delu- 
sions 369 

God Seen 40, 69, 75 

God Not Seen 286 

Gideon's Test with a Fleece 

of Wool 85 

Guess Work of Mediums.. 189 

H 

Hosea Buys This Woman. 216 
His Brethren Did Not Be- 
lieve in Jesus 292 

Heals by Spirit Power of 

Jesus 314 

Heaven's Dimensions and 
Forms Given: It Is 1,500 

Miles Square 382 

Holy Ghost: Meaning of 

Term 12 

Holy Ghost Given by 

Breathing on Them 301 

Holy Ghost Talks to Them. 334 
Holy Ghost Never Heard of 

by These Disciples 340 

Hagar in Wilderness 19 

Herod Killed by an Angel. 334 

Healings 314, 318, 338, 347 

Healers Poorly Paid 171 

Human Slavery Upheld by 

Jehovah 39 

Hypnotism Used by Peter 

and John 312 

Hezekiah Wants Proof that 

He Will Be Healed 144 

Handwriting on Wall In- 
terpreted 210 

Heaven Silent for Half an 

Hour 377 

Hate Your Enemies, Jeho- 
vah Teaches 39 



INDEX 



387 



i 



Page 



Israelites and Other Na- 
tions Spiritists 228 

Israel Crosses Jordan on 
Dry Land 76 

Imprisoned Jeremiah for 
Practicing" Mediumship. . 187 

Impressional Mediumship.. 196 

Inspirational Speaking and 
Speakers.... 178, 215, 279, 350 

Israelites Worship Other 

Tribal Gods 99 



Jesus a Trance Medium... 249 

Jesus a Spirit, Arranges 
for a Seance 258 

Jesus a Materializing Me- 
dium 249 

Jesus, a Spirit, Eats Fish 
and Dines with Men. .285, 304 

Jesus Accused of Having a 
Devil 261, 294 

Jesus a Man and Medium 
According to Peter 310 

Jesus Abolished Death, 

Says Paul 370 

Jesus, a Spirit, Speaks to 
Paul 345 

Jesus, a Spirit, Controls 
John 342, 375 

Jesus a Clairvoyant 260, 287 

Jesus a Carpenter and a 
Carpenter's Son — Has 
Brothers and Sisters. 244, 261 

Jesus a Developing Me- 
dium 277 

Jesus a Prophet and Mes- 
sias 230 

Jesus a Mind Reader 

237, 242, 274 

Jesus' Body Disappears. 257, 286 

Jesus Baptizes with Spirit 
Power 286 

Jesus Builds His Church 
on Rock of Spirit Com- 
munion 248 

Jesus Commands Apostles 
After His Death 305 

Jehovah a God of War 

35, 73, 99, 130, 188 

Jehovah Condemns His 
Own Prophets 184 

Jehovah Does Not Repent. 

107, 167, 196 

Jesus Dematerializes. .285, 306 

Jehovah Defeated by Char- 
iots of Iron 82 

Jehovah Deceives His Me- 
diums 194 

Jesus' Disciples Left Him. 292 

Jehovah Enslaved Israel 70 
Years 186 

Jehovah's Example in War. 66 

Jesus Feeds 4,000 People. . . 252 

Jesus Foretells Coming of 
Modern Spiritualism .... 298 

Jehovah Forbids It, Then 
Makes Images Himself.. 37 



Page 

Jesus Gives Spirit Tests... 288 

Jesus Has Legions of Spir- 
it Helpers 254 

Jehovah, Jeremiah's Spirit 
Guide, Deceived Him 182 

Jehovah Jealous 

63,69, 70, 71, 82, 220, 222 

Jesus Led by the Spirit 
While Under Control. 273, 274 

Jesus Materializes 

258, 259, 284, 285, 300, 301, 

303, 304, 305 

Jesus Materialized Cooked 
Fish Breakfast 304 

Jesus Materialized 40 Days. 305 

Jehovah No Woman Suf- 
fragist 66 

Jehovah Not Omnipotent.. 22 

Jehovah Not God of All 
Nations 51 

Jehovah Not God of Jesus. 129 

Jehovah Not God of the 
Valley 130 

Jesus Names Disciples, 
Gives Them Power to 
Raise the Dead 240 

Jesus Not Accepted as a 
Prophet by His People. . . 244 

Jehovah One of Many Gods 33 

Jehovah Orders a Perpet- 
ual Sunday Dinner 52 

Jehovah Orders Sins Put 
on a Goat 50 

Jehovah Orders Many 

Slain 46, 59, 63, 73, 

75, 77, 79, 105, 120 

Jehovah Orders Isaiah to 
Walk Naked Three Years 174 

Jesus Ordains His Twelve 
Disciples 261 

Jesus Practiced Medium- 
ship Secretly 260 

Jesus Promises to Return 
After Death 264, 265, 280 

Jehovah Punishes Inno- 
cent — David Protests.... 148 

Jeremiah Questions Jeho- 
vah About His Lying. . . . 181 

Jehovah Repents. .. .45, 83, 

105, 107, 148, 167, 184, 187 

Jesus Returns, Disciples 
Believe Not 265, 292 

Jehovah Refuses to Com- 
municate 194, 195 

Jesus Says He Is the Mes- 
sias 289 

Jehovah Sells His Chosen 
People Into Slavery 

83, 84, 88, 184, 186 

Jesus Sends Out Disciples 
Two and Two 262 

Jephtha Sacrifices His 

Daughter 88 

Jeremiah Says Jehovah 
Deceives the People 179 

Jesus Selects Paul as His 
Medium 325 



388 



INDEX 



Page 
Jehovah Says He Is God, 
Then Makes a Prophecy 
That Never Comes True. 27 
Jehovah Says He Is God. 20, 176 
Jehovah the Spirit Guide 

of Israel's Mediums 17 

Jehovah Tries to Prove He 

Is God 176 

Jehovah the Savior 176 

Jehovah Terrible 

71, 74, 79, 152, 221 
Jehovah Tells Saul to Slay 
Men, Women, Children, 

and Sucklings 105 

Jesus, Though Dead, Fol- 
lows Disciples Lectures 

with Tests 266 

Jesus Teaches Sin Causes 

Palsy 237 

Jehovah Thinks Earth 

Rests on Water 37 

Jesus Tempted of the Devil 233 
Jesus Teaches Hell, Curses 

City 277, 280 

Jesus to Occupy Throne of 

David 269 

Jesus the Son of Joseph.. « 287 
Jesus Teaches Spiritual 
Science and Inspirational 
Speaking 

235, 240, 263, 276, 279, 297 
Jesus Upholds Working on 

Sabbath 290 

Jesus Under Spirit Control. 286 
Judaism vs. Christianity... 228 
John's Vision of 14,000 Vir- 
gin Men 379 

Jehovah, Was He God?. 14, 31 
Jehovah's Wrath and An- 
ger 44, 56, 60, 63, 68, 

69, 83, 84, 88, 120, 124, 162, 

173, 188, 191, 220 
Jacob Wrestled with God . . 26 
Jehovah Weary of Burnt 

Offerings 170 

Jesus Walked on Water... 245 
Jesus' Works Would Make 
a Big Book 304 

K 

Killings: Jehovah Kills 50,- 

070 Men 98 

Kills 70,000 120 

Killed 185,000 142 

Kills 70,000 147 

Kills Seven Sons for Sins 

of Father 120 

Kills Relatives for Teach- 
ing Other Religions 71 

Kills King for Consulting 

Other Gods 131 

Kills Males, Saves Fe- 
males for Selves 73 

Kills Uzza 117 

King Sends Wife to a Me- 
dium 123 



Page 
L 

Lies and Liars. . .22, 94, 111, 

141, 180, 193, 293, 316, 317 

Looking at Brass Snake 
Cures Snake Bite 59 

Lord Hearkens to Voice of 
Man 75 

Luke's Only Evidence Is 
Memory and Hearsay. . . 267 

Lord or Paul Struck Him 
Blind 335 

Lying Spirits from God De- 
ceive Ahab 153 

Levitation.190, 191, 192, 199, 323 

M 

Moses Angry, Smashes 
Slates 45 

Mediums Called Sons of 
God 349 

Materialization of Spirits. 
17, 20, 33, 56, 69, 79, 151, 
190, 249, 258, 263, 267, 271, 

275, 284, 285, 300, 301, 339 
Moses and Elias Material- 
ize 249, 275 

Materialization of a Dove. . 273 
Materialized Hand at Bel- 

shazzar's Feast 209 

Materialized Great Army 

from Dry Bones 197 

Materializes "Back Parts". 46 
Materialized Spirit Eats a 

Veal Dinner 21 

Ministering Angels or Spir- 
its 164 

Mediums and Priests 

Drunkards 75 

Mediums Better than As- 
trologers 201 

Miraculous Conceptions and 
Births — Isaac's, page 24; 
John's, 267; Samson's, 89, 
90; Samuel's, 95; Un- 
named Child's 137 

Man Caught Up to Third 

Heaven 365 

Moses Contradicts Jesus.. 290 
Miracles Done by Beast. . . . 378 
Miracles — Elisha Makes 

Little Food Feed 100 Men 139 
Miracles — Elisha Neutral- 
izes Poison 138 

Medium Elisha Well Paid. 141 
Mediums for Finding 

Water 34 

More Fraudulent Mediums. 185 
Mediumship Given by Our 

Heavenly Father 278 

My God (A Poem) 226 

Mediumship Held Sacred 

by Jesus 251 

Mediums Imprisoned 318 

Money in Fish Business. . . 252 
Mediumship, Job Develops. 162 

Moses Kills a Man 28 

Mental Mediumship, Dan- 
iel Teaches 205 



INDEX 



389 



Page 

Mediumship Must Not Be 
Neglected 370 

Mediums Must Believe 

Paul's Teachings 360 

Marriage 

26, 73, 91, 96, 181, 185, 351 

Mediumship, Moses Well 
Paid for His 68 

Materialist No More — Solo- 
mon's Views Changed... 170 

Mediumship of a Soldier. . . 146 

Mediumship of Daniel 

Wonderful 315 

Mediumship of Paul 361 

Mediums of Bible... 36, 65, 
78, 79, 88, 90, 94, 96, 100, 
101, 112, 117, 118, 121, 123, 
126, 136, 145, 146, 150, 159, 
171, 177, 178, 189, 216, 217, 
218, 221, 230, 269, 270, 271, 

272, 274, 319, 325, 342, 352 

Materialism of Bible, 

160, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 

169, 176, 177 

Mediums of Bible Require 
Pay 100, 123 

Mediumship of Jesus.. 235, 264 

Miracles of Loaves and 

Fishes 245, 247 

Mediumship of John 272 

Miracles of Samson and 
Foxes 92 

Mediumship of Jesus Proves 
Him Savior of the World. 289 

Mary Possessed of Seven 
Devils 274 

Mediums Partake of the 
Heavenly Calling 372 

Mediumship Promised All 
Converts 311 

Moses Questions Spirit 

Guide 54 

Mind Reading 276, 278, 279 

Moses' Rod Turns to a Ser- 
pent 29 

Moses' Rod Wins Battle. . . 34 

Mediums Receive Presents. 123 

Ministering Spirits.. 25, 58, 
82, 129, 234, 260, 283, 318, 372 

More Spiritualism 296 

Mediums Threatened by 
Priests and Officers 315 

Mediumship Turns Saul 
Into Another Man 102 

Music Used in Seances, in 
Raising the Dead, and 

Curing Obsession 102, 

108, 109, 117, 136, 146, 149, 

151, 153, 238 

Moses Writes His Own 

Obituary 75 

N 

Named Babe, Regained 

Speech 270 

No Christian Church Prop- 
erly Officered 353 



Page 
Nebuchadnezzar Eats 

Grass, Then Recovers His 

Mind 206, 208 

Numbering Israel 147, 216 

Names of God of Moses 

12, 32, 48 
No Vision or Answer of 

God 219 

Nothing Very Spiritual in 

Leviticus 53 



Once a Spiritualist, Always 
One 372 

Obsession Cured 239 

Obsession Contradicted... 282 

O Death Where Is Thy 
Sting? 363 

Other Fraudulent Bible 
Mediums 183 

Obsession, or Was It Dis- 
ease? 280 

Opposing Spiritualism. .51, 

72, 73, 145, 155, 172, 173, 369 

Ordained Unworthy Ones. . 123 



Prophets and Mediums 

Same 15 

Prayer Answered by Spirit 

Message 143 

Paul Asks and Gets a Spirit 

Message 366 

Prophecy and Spirit Phe- 
nomena 381 

Peter an Ancient Billy Sun- 
day 310 

Paul a Developing Medium. 340 
Paul and Silas Imprisoned. 338 
Peter and John Arrested. . 313 
Peter and John Unedu- 
cated 314 

Priests and Prophets Well 

Cared For 200 

Priests and Prophets Shed 

Blood 186 

Priests and Prophets Bad 

186, 196 
Paul, a Prisoner, Sails for 
Italy — Foretells the Fu- 
ture 346 

Paul a Bible Spiritualist. . . 348 
Prophets Contradict Each 

Other 185 

Poor Conditions for Tests. 283 
Paul Cast on an Island — 

Called a God 347 

Paul Cures Obsession — 
Heals with Magnetized 

Cloth 340 

Prophets Deceitful 183 

Peter Denies Jesus 155 

Prophets Divine for Money 219 
Peter Delivered from Pris- 
on 333 

Paul Drove Good Spirits 

Out of Medium 337 

Prophesies Evil 179 



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INDEX 



Page 

Prophets False. .73, 179, 180, 183 

Paul Follows Spirit Direc- 
tions 36? 

Pentecostal Feast 307 

Prophecy Fulfilled 

20, 24, 114, 124, 130, 254, 

255, 283, 298, 343, 34? 

Prophecy Not Fulfilled 

19, 52, 243, 248, 253, 254, 

264, 283, 367, 375 

Paul Gives Instructions 
How to Conduct a Se- 
ance 359 

Prophet Is a Fool, Says 
Hosea the Prophet. 216 

Palmistry Indicated 

161, 167, 168 

Persecutors Ignorant of 
Spiritual Laws 255 

Punishes Mediums and 

Their Clients 195 

Powerful Manifestations.. 151 

Priests Must Not Marry 
Widows 200 

Prophecy Not of Private 
Interpretation 374 

Paul No Vegetarian 369 

Paul No Prohibitionist 288 

Prophets No More 165 

Paul Opposes Physical 

Culture 370 

Proof of Paul's Medium- 
ship Wanted 366 

Persecutors of Jesus, Who 
Were They? 255 

Prophecy of the Automo- 
bile 220 

Prophets Prophesy Lies, 
Says Jehovah 193 

Paul Proud of His Medi- 
umship 350 

Physical Phenomena by 

Spirits 316, 332 

Peter Preaches Spiritual- 
ism 309, 369 

Paul Persecuted for Dem- 
onstrating Spiritualism.. 364 

Paul Preaches Resurrec- 
tion of Dead 362, 367 

Peter Released from Prison 
by Spirits 331 

Prophets, Seers and An- 
ointed Are Called Men of 
God 330 

Prophets Speak Vision Out 
of Own Hearts 183 

Paul's Spirit Guide 

Strengthens Him 371 

Paul Sings Under Control. . 357 

Paul Shut in Castle to Save 
His Life 345 

Paul Saved from Death 344 

Paul Says Prophets Make 
Converts by Giving Tests 359 

Paul Sees Spirit of Jesus. . 361 

Priests Seek to Kill Jesus. 294 

Paul Speaks of Jesus' Many 
Appearances 361 



Page 

Peter Says Jesus (Dead) 
Produced Phenomena of 
the Pentecostal Feast. . . 311 

Pentecostal Seance Con- 
verts 3,000 People 

310, 311, 312 

Paul's Control Opposes Di- 
vorce 351 

Peter Tells Disciples Whole 
Story 330 

Paul Tells of His Conver- 
sion 343 

Paul Contradicts Advent- 
ism 363 

Peter True to His Medium - 
ship 322 

Paul Teaches Spiritualism 
— Imparts Spiritual Gifts. 349 

Peter Walks on the Water. 246 



Return After Death, Jesus 
Promised to 248 

Romans Beat Paul with 
Many Stripes 338 

Reincarnation Believed, 

241, 244, 247, 263 

Revelation from Heaven. . . 248 

Reward for Reading Spirit 
Writing 309 

Resurrection of Dead Not 
Physical 363 

Resurrection of Physical 
Bodies 257 

Return of Dead Causes Re- 
pentance 281 

Rainbow Sign in Heaven. . . 18 



Saul Among the Prophets. 103 

Signs and Wonders 336, 339 

Samuel a Child Medium. .. . 96 
Samuel a Developing Me- 
dium 100 

Stephen Arrested and Exe- 
cuted 320, 321 

Spirits Appear to Mortals 

23, 24, 206,257,267,270, 283, 285 
Samuel Accepts Pay for 

Mediumship 100 

Saul a Medium for Evil 

Spirits Ill 

Simon Attempts to Buy 

Spiritual Gifts 322 

Samuel and Saul Quarrel.. 106 
Solomon Builds a Spirit 

Cabinet 121 

Solomon Builds Temple by 

Spirit Instructions 150 

Saul's Brutality 104 

Spirit Cabinet Ordered by 

Jehovah 41 

Spirit Cabinet Captured by 

Enemies 43 

Spirit Communion Is of God 344 
Spirits Called by Different 
Names 329 



INDEX 



391 



PAGE 

Spiritualist Churches Fully 
Equipped 354 

Saul Changes His Name to 
Paul — Persecuted Chris- 
tians 321 

Spirit Called by Different 
Names 222, 329 

Spirits Control Mediums 
62, 84, 91, 92, 104, 110, 162, 
190, 191, 197-, 219, 270, 271, 
286, 291, 314, 332, 357, 375, 377 

Spirit Control Says He 
Came from Heaven 291 

Spirits Commune with Jo- 
seph in These Five 
Dreams 232 

Saul Disobeys Jehovah 105 

Spirit Drives Jesus Into 
Wilderness 260 

Samuel Destroys Enemies 
with Thunder 104 

Seven Days' Cattle 

Slaughter 152 

Samuel Established as a 
Medium 98 

Spirit Forbids Them 

Preaching in Asia 336 

Spirit Guides 40, 166, 178 

Spirit Guides Leave Medi- 
ums 94, 188 

Spirit Guides Are Gods. . . . 165 

Spirit Guides Inspire Other 
Mediums 44 

Spirit Guides Make Money 
for Mediums 70 

Spirit Guide, Jehovah a 
Powerful One 55 

Spirit Gave Name of Street 325 

Saul Held Executioners' 
Clothes 321 

Saul Himself Goes to Kill 
David and Is Controlled. 110 

Seances Held. . . .54, 56, 151, 329 

Saul Hides, Spirit Finds 
Him 104 

Spiritualism Is Not Spirit- 
ism 127, 188 

Speaking in Tongues 

355, 356, 357 

Spirits in Prison -, 374 

Spirit Messages and Com- 
munications 

34, 41, 48, 56, 60, 64, 78, 
102, 118, 124, 126, 129, 131, 
132, 150, 153, 154, 156, 159, 
172, 177, 190, 195, 196, 199, 
212, 213, 215, 220, 221, 232, 
270, 288, 300, 305, 310, 344, 

345, 366, 375, 376, 381, 383 

Spirit Messages Precious.. 96 

Samson's Morals 93 

Sadducees Materialists, 
Pharisees Spiritualists.. 344 

Spirit Man Returns, Says 
He Is Gabriel 268 

Spirit Man Strengthens 
Daniel 214 

Spirit Men with Wings 189 



PAGE 

Spirit Man Gabriel Visits 
Mary 269 

Spirit Man Interprets Vi- 
sion 313 

Spirit Man Appears 214, 306 

Spirit Messenger the Com- 
forter 299 

Symbol Mediums 224, 225 

Spirit Match Making 26 

Spirit of an Old Prophet 
Communicates 383 

Spiritualism of Jesus — 

Many Mansions 295 

Spirit Obsession 236 

Signs, or Tests, Follow Be- 
lievers 251. 266 

Spirit of Jesus with Disci- 
ples Always 259 

Sons of God Are Spirit Me- 
diums 231, 286 

Saul Obsessed 108, 109 

Stops Onflow of River with 
Old Coat 133 

Spiritualism of New Testa- 
ment 227 

Sleight of Hand — Does Je- 
hovah Teach It? 29 

Spirit Produces Earthquake 57 

Spirit Power Kills People. 49 

Spirit Power Gets Water 
from a Dry Bone 93 

Supposed Prophecy of 

Coming of Christ 172 

Spirit Phenomena Remark- 
able 127 

Saul Prophesied Naked. . . . 110 

Spirit Phenomena Fright- 
ens King 209 

Spirit Phenomena Converts 
Priests 320 

Spirit Phenomena, Is It of 
the Devil? 241 

Spirit Phenomena Converts 
Kings 207, 212 

Spirit Phenomena Very 

Powerful 256 

Seraphim Produce Physical 
Phenomena 171 

Spirit Power Converted 
Them 350 

Spirit Readings by Deborah 85 

Samuel Refuses to Pardon 
Saul 107 

Spirit Readings Nathan 
Gives David 118 

Spirit Reading Ezekiel 

Gave to Elders 194 

Spirits Show Paul Ship 
Will Be Lost 346 

Spirit Slate Writing 

40, 44, 45, 47, 71, 303 

Selecting Soldiers by Spirit 
Direction 87 

Spirits Subject to the Sev- 
enty Disciples 277 

Saul Sent Men to Take Da- 
vid and All Were Con- 
trolled 110 



392 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Sun Stopped by Isaiah 148 

Sun Stopped by Joshua 7? 

Samuel's Spirit Message to 
Saul 102 

Spirit Soldier Communi- 
cates 78 

Spirits Speak to Mortals 
268, 283, 300, 301, 307, 323, 

328, 342, 345, 372 

Spirit Sends Them Away.. 335 

Spirit Terrifies Disciples.. 285 

Spirit Tests or Signs 
Wanted 86 

Spirit Tests or Signs. 

117, 125, 155, 242, 247, 251, 
262, 266, 270, 278, 288, 289, 

291, 302, 303, 366 

Spirits Talk About De- 
stroying Sodom 23 

Spirit Tells Paul Not to Go 
to Jerusalem 342 

Spirits Told Him She Was 
Coming 124 

Spirit Tells Samuel Saul Is 
Coming 101 

Saul Tears Samuel's Man- 
tle 107 

Samuel Tells Saul the Asses 
Are Found 101 

Spirit Used Thunder to 
Win Battle 99 

Spirit Voices 

23, 61, 175, 208, 224, 225, 
258, 259, 273, 276, 295, 324, 347 

Spirit Writing 149, 154 

Spirit with Measuring Rod. 199 

Spirit Writes on David's 
Skin 149 

Spirit Writing on Wall at 
Belshazzar's Feast 208 

Sacrifices: What Good Did 
They Do Jehovah? 152 

Seances Well Paid For 42 

Strong Wine for Jehovah's 
Use 65 

Spirits with Swords 

60, 78, 148, 149 

T 

Trances 214 

Abram Entranced 19 

Balaam in a Trance 63 

Daniel Entranced.. 212, 214, 215 

Jesus Entranced 249 

Peter in a Trance 328 

Paul in a Trance 244 

Thomas a Skeptic 301 

Tongues Are for a Sign .... 358 
Tithings — Buy Strong 

Drink with Them 72 

Thomas Converted 302 

Ten Commandments a 

Spirit Communication. 37, 38 
Test Conditions Demanded. 

202, 203 
Ten Commandments Given 

on Slates 44 



page 
Ten Commandments Given 

Through Trumpet 88 

Telepathy — Did Solomon 

Believe in It? 170 

Turns Earth Upside Down, 

Scatters Inhabitants 

Abroad 175 

Trumpet Message from 

Heaven 39 

The Old Testament's Last 

Prophecy 225 

Tutelary or Tribal Gods 

131 228 
Teachings of Spiritualism.' 168 

Trumpet Seances 253, 377 

Thousands Slain with Jaw- 
bone of an Ass 92 

Try the Spirits 375 

Tongues: Forbid Not to 

Speak in Tongues 361 

Transfiguration 

48, 250, 263, 320 

U 

Unbelief a Hindrance to 
Spirit Manifestations 261 

V 

Vegetarians and Meat Eat- 
ers Contest 201 

Vegetarians Develop Medi- 
umsElp 201 

Visions 19, 26, 168, 170, 

171, 189, 192, 213, 214, 220, 

223, 324, 328, 365, 377, 379 

W 

Whole Congregation Con- 
trolled 330 

What Christian Authority 
Says of Paul — Paul's 

Conversion 325 

Widow's Cruse of Oil 126 

Wait for Holy Ghost 305 

Was Jesus an Adventist?. . 254 
Was Jesus Older than 

Abraham ? 293 

Would Make Gods of Paul 

and Barnabas 336 

Women Mediums 

85, 145, 156, 193, 269, 342 
Women Must Not Speak in 

Church 360 

Women Mediums Prophesy 

Out of Own Hearts 193 

Where No Vision People 

Perish 168 

Witches Ordered Killed.. 10, 39 

Walked on Water 291 

Wrath of God in Bottles. . . 380 
Woman of Tilndor a Me- 
dium; Samuel Dead 112 

Word of God Is a Spirit 

Message 122 

Wickedness of Prophets 

and Priests 180 

Why Slay Apostles? 319 

Woman, 88, a Prophetess 
or Medium 271 



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